I heard he was being transferred to Hawaii, not fired.
The transfer is probably off now.
From: Eric Kuhnke via Af
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:43 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
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.
ZAU is the call sign of the Chicago Air Rout Traffic Control Center
(ARTCC), which covers 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,
MKE, RFD, PIA, and the two busiest airports in the area; Chicago Midway
International and O'Hare International, 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 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 and
reported ATC ZERO -- no controllers available, control center offline.
