Damn, why couldn't it be Durbin that slit his own throat.
On 9/29/2014 5:04 PM, That One Guy via Af wrote:
im going with isis on this
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Nate Burke via Af <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
This is only a couple miles from our office. They had all the
local news choppers up in the air over it on Friday. I was
surprised that it didn't garner more national coverage. I guess
since it wasn't the terror threat of the day, it didn't get any
traction. Just a disgruntled employee. Even the first reports
said it was not a terrorist act.
On 9/29/2014 4:36 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af 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
<mailto: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.
--
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if
you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all
means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
