Heather Hayden, a spokeswoman for Airways
Corp., the company which controls New
Zealand's air traffic control system, said
airports' radars still were operating but
were unable to communicate with each other.

That meant there was no nationwide picture
and controllers could not track aircraft
outside of their own range.

Tampa Bay Online

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 03, 2000

Answers

Oops....sorry about that midair passenger transfer.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), January 03, 2000.

Are we in that 100 hour window now?

NO!!! This cannot happen!!!

BTW, Palm Springs airport STILL has no radar and it wont for some time. Can you imagine the implications to the tourism biz if this continues?

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

roflmao LM...

Thank you!

"uh, NZ 102, you're just outside our window... uh... where are you exactly in relation to US 33? Do you have a visual? Over?"

"uh, tower, we're currently sssssssshhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiitttttttt!!!!!"

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

This event actually happened on 22 December 1999. The radar was down for 3 hours from 12:00 - 3pm. They said it was because they were adding capacity to their computer system.

-- KiwiChick (akiwi@kiwinet.com), January 03, 2000.

This is an OLD story - it happened last week.

-- Risteard Mac Thomais (uachtaran@ireland.com), January 03, 2000.

cool, good to know... any updates? Everything going fine? Air traffic flowing normally?

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

Sorry, I could not tell from the article that it
was and old story.

Here is a recent one that I got trying to confirm
the first one.

The owner of Alpine Soaring, Doug Hamilton,
said his inability to use fuel from the local
Mobil source had caused "major problems".

Fuel glitch hits airlines

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 03, 2000.