Radio Problems Ground Many Flights in California
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Air traffic controllers lost radio  contact with aircraft flying high-altitude routes in the  western United States on Tuesday, disrupting thousands of  flights heading in and out of southern California, authorities  said.
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A communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the West to hold flights on the ground Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman said.
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A three-hour air traffic control outage that grounded hundreds of flights across the West on Tuesday also led to five close calls in which planes failed to keep
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Communications equipment failed Tuesday at a regional air-traffic control center, shutting down all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and causing a ripple effect across the country that grounded dozens of passenger and cargo flights.
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More than half of all flights in Brazil were delayed or canceled on Tuesday for the third straight day as the country's air crisis deepened following a deadly crash last week and a major radar outage.
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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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The conflagration that is Southern California is overwhelming wireless phone networks, and residents are turning to text messaging, blogs, and Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter to keep each other abreast of the latest developments.
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Failure to perform a routine maintenance check caused the shutdown of an air traffic communications system serving a large swath of the West, resulting in several close
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Los Angeles&#39; major airports came to a near stop yesterday after radio and radar equipment failed at a key air-traffic-control center in the Mojave Desert, forcing the diversion of up to 800 commercial airline flights bound for Southern California and
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.
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Los Angeles -- Blustery winds, record rainfall and mudslides have blocked highways and shut off power for thousands of homes and businesses in California.
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A glitch in a regional radar system caused some flights in and out of Southern California to be delayed Friday morning as the busy Memorial Day weekend began, officials said.
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U.S. aviation authorities lifted an  order grounding flights to southern California at 8 p.m. PDT  (11 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, more than three hours after air  traffic controllers lost radio contact with high-altitude  aircraft.
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A Midwest snowstorm forced airlines to delay or cancel hundreds of flights across the nation yesterday as passengers continued to face obstacles to their holiday travel plans.
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Airfield equipment that helps pilots land planes at Reno/Tahoe International Airport malfunctioned Wednesday, forcing the cancellation or delay of at least a dozen flights and stranding passengers.
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Passengers taking to the skies for U.S. flights could be checking e-mail and surfing the Web through high-speed Internet connections in a couple of years. And the day when travelers can chat away on cell phones while in flight might not be far behind.
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US holiday travelers hoping to get back in the air after a weekend of flight cancellations due to computer malfunctions and staff shortages still faced difficulties getting to their destinations on Monday.