Radio Outage Grounds West Coast Flights
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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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Hundreds of airline passengers suffered disruption to their travel plans when a major regional airport was shut down for an hour after a humming and vibrating adult sex toy was mistaken for a bomb.
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West coast mainline still out of service and London station partly closed, leaving thousands stuck
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The Federal Aviation Administration&#39;s failure to properly maintain communications equipment led to Tuesday&#39;s breakdown of radio contact between air controllers and pilots over parts of the western US, officials said on Wednesday.
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The New York area's three major airports experienced delays of two to three hours on Friday because of a computer problem and thunderstorms, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration 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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United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., on Wednesday said a systemwide computer failure prevented flights from being dispatched between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Central time (9 a.m. to 11 a.m. EDT).
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RENO, Nevada Hundreds of stranded passengers await flights out of Reno-Tahoe International Airport today, a day after a snowstorm and an equipment malfunction forced dozens of flights to be canceled or delayed.
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A powerful storm moved along the West Coast today, causing highway-blocking mudslides, flooding and power outages. Up to a foot of rain was possible in one mountain area.
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Disruption on the West Coast Mainline looks set to continue with normal services not expected to resume until Thursday.
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Blog: A computer failure is blamed for temporary grounding of flights, FAA confirms.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is now releasing new information as to what caused major delays for air travelers at several southern California airports.
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A two-hour computer outage affecting dispatch operations at United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., delayed nearly 270 domestic and international flights by the No. 2 U.S. carrier on Wednesday.
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Looking around San Diego&#39;s Lindbergh Field, it&#39;s hard to tell that the airline business is in distress. On any given day, tens of thousands of people make their way through its terminals to travel to destinations near and far.
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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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Air traffic controllers were forced to use their personal cell phones to reroute hundreds of flights Tuesday after the Federal Aviation Administration's Memphis Center lost radar and telephone service for more than two hours, snarling air traffic in the middle of the nation.
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British Airways passengers at Heathrow Airport have suffered further travel disruption with two more flights cancelled due to &quot;technical&quot; problems.