http://abc7chicago.com/travel/i-team-faa-warned-about-possible-air-traffic-sabotage-years-ago/328112/
By Ben Bradley
WLS
September 28, 2014
AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- The ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team has learned that red
flags were raised years ago about how sabotage or terrorism could lead to
the air travel mess triggered by one man.
There is word Sunday night that it will be more than two weeks before the
FAA facility in Aurora is operating normally again.
The I-Team has learned that "years" before 9/11, and 16 years before
Friday's sabotage, government investigators warned the FAA about crippling
consequences similar to what we're seeing now.
The air traffic controllers union says this shutdown is one of the most
challenging situations faced by controllers and the FAA since the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
A disgruntled worker with access and opportunity brought air traffic
control to a standstill in Chicago.
The head of the FAA told Illinois' senior senator in a phone call Sunday
that the private contractor destroyed 23 of 29 control racks. Radar lines
were cut. Computers set ablaze. The damage from the sabotage and
subsequent firefighting effort - so severe the FAA is forced to rebuild
its infrastructure in separate section of the Aurora air traffic control
center.
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