considering they found him underneath a table with a knife in hand actively trying to cut his own throat, i think being fired is the least of that guy's problems right now.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jaime Solorza via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Harris employee. Fired now > > Jaime Solorza > On Sep 29, 2014 3:36 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af" < > af@afmug.com> wrote: > >> Oh yeah, >> >> I'm in Chicago for a few days. Flew in on thursday before this >> happened. My wife flew in on Saturday and ended up with a nasty delay in >> MSP since there were very very few flights flying into the affected area, >> which basically includes both chicago airports, and the two airports up in >> wisconsin. Thousands of flights cancelled over the last couple of days. >> >> That's the big news here. >> >> -forrest >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Eric Kuhnke via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: >> >>> Anyone see this? >>> >>> >>> http://posttrib.suntimes.com/30167722-537/flight-delays-to-continue-after-arson.html#.VCnNuOeXtGE >>> >>> >>> http://www.metafilter.com/143174/ATCSCC-ADVZY-020-DCC-ZAU-09-26-2014-ZAU-GROUND-STOP >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, ATCSCC Advisory 20 of 26-Sep-2014 went out. When operators, >>> controllers and airport managers saw the title, a gasp of disbelief was >>> heard. The problem was simple enough to state in three words, and complex >>> enough to cancel thousand of flights and cost hundred of millions of >>> dollars: ZAU ATC ZERO >>> <http://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=20&adv_date=09262014&facId=DCC/ZAU&title=ZAU+GROUND+STOP&titleDate=09/26/14> >>> . >>> >>> ZAU >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Route_Traffic_Control_Center> >>> is the call sign of the Chicago Air Rout Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), >>> which covers <http://www.fly.faa.gov/Information/west/zau/zau.htm> >>> northern Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, western Iowa, and south >>> eastern Michigan. There are two "sides" at an ARTCC. ZAU-LO handed traffic >>> destined for airports in the covered area, ZAU-HI handled traffic >>> overflying. Both were amongst the busiest in the country. ZAU-HI was busy >>> with traffic from the east to west, as well as European traffic heading to >>> Houston and Dallas-FW, ZAU-LO had to feed in traffic from airports like >>> GYY <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary/Chicago_International_Airport>, >>> MKE >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mitchell_International_Airport>, >>> RFD >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Rockford_International_Airport>, >>> PIA >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Wayne_A._Downing_Peoria_International_Airport>, >>> and the two busiest airports in the area; Chicago Midway International >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Midway_International_Airport> and >>> O'Hare >>> International >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hare_International_Airport>, one of >>> the busiest airports in the world. >>> >>> On Friday morning, Brian Howard, a contract employee of the FAA and >>> holding full credentials to the ZAU datacenters, set a fire in the telecom >>> room, destroying 23 of the 29 >>> <http://posttrib.suntimes.com/30167722-537/flight-delays-to-continue-after-arson.html> >>> rack and disconnecting all the controller stations from the associated >>> radars and radio transmitters needed to watch and guide traffic through the >>> busy sector. As the consoles dropped offline, the ZAU duty manager had no >>> choice -- they called ZZZ, the FAA command center >>> <http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp> and reported ATC ZERO -- no >>> controllers available, control center offline. >>> >> >>
