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Air traffic control 30 second power failure { August 17 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.wnbc.com/news/2411277/detail.html http://www.wnbc.com/news/2411277/detail.html Glitch At L.I. Air Traffic Control Center Causes Delays POSTED: 6:56 p.m. EDT August 17, 2003 UPDATED: 8:21 a.m. EDT August 18, 2003 NEW YORK -- A 30-second power failure at the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control center on Long Island disrupted flights in the area for about 30 minutes Sunday afternoon, authorities said. At 3:08 p.m., the power conditioning system, which supplies power to the computers at the New York Terminal Approach Control Center, broke down, FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac said. Air traffic controllers, who monitor flights in and out of the region's three major airports, temporarily lost radar contact but not voice communication with aircraft, she said. After 30 to 45 seconds, a backup power conditioning system took over, she said. Controllers then cleared departing flights to leave the airspace and held incoming flights until the computer system was restored. The reboot took less than a minute, Salac said. The airspace returned to normal about 3:40 p.m., after all systems had been double-checked, she said. A couple of hundred flights headed in and out of LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International and Newark (N.J.) Liberty International airports were delayed for about 30 minutes. The cause of the failure was under investigation but was not believed to be related to Thursday's blackout, Salac said. During the outage, the center operated on backup generators. The latest glitch caused "minimal" flight delays, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airports. Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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