Radio Problems Ground Many Flights in California
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US aviation authorities lifted an order grounding flights to southern California at 8 pm PDT (11 pm EDT) on Wednesday, more than three hours after air traffic controllers
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The regional airline says severe winter weather &quot;stressed&quot; its flight-assignment application, causing it to crash. By Jim Nash.
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Commercial aviation returned to normal Wednesday morning after an apparent computer glitch disabled radios and radars at a US air traffic control center in southern California, disrupting flight schedules nationwide.
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Congested skies and bad weather last year resulted in more flight delays, more mishandled baggage and more complaints about airline service than in 2003, the government announced Thursday.
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Flights to and from Los Angeles area airports were halted because of an outage at a radio- communications facility. The Federal Aviation Administration halted all departing flights
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Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
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Airline flights to and from airports within a huge swath of the southwestern United States were grounded for several hours Tuesday when the region&#39;s radio and radar system broke down, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
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Holiday travelers experienced delays or canceled flights due to computer problems and weather, according to a Delta Airlines representative.
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In these days of jittery travel, sometimes just a phone call can ground an airplane. Over the past week and a half, false bomb threats have forced at least half a dozen flights to make emergency landings in Europe, frightening passengers, tangling schedules and costing airlines big money.
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A cascading computer failure in the nation's air-traffic control system caused severe flight delays and some cancellations Friday along the East Coast.
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Two small airplanes collided Sunday while flying off the California coast, killing at least three people.
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CORONA, Calif.  -- Two private planes flying about a mile from an airport collided Sunday, killing at least four people, raining debris down on car dealerships below, authorities said.
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A security breach and a minor explosion caused by decaying batteries at Los Angeles International Airport forced the closure of four terminals Saturday morning, delaying dozens of flights for several hours on the second day of the Labor Day weekend.
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The California grid operator is urging residents to conserve electricity on Tuesday after a small plane crash near San Diego damaged transmission lines, knocking some generating plants offline, a spokesman said.
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LOS ANGELES -- A three-hour air traffic control outage Tuesday that grounded hundreds of flights across the West also led to five close calls in which planes didn&#39;t keep a recommended minimum distance between each other, the FAA said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- Airport operations were back to normal early Wednesday following a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility that tied up travelers for hours.
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Air travelers had another rough month in July: More than 30 percent of flights were delayed or canceled, according to data released yesterday by the federal government.