The staff of the National Control Center of Memphis flights had to perform a serious test - while more than two hours, which they operated landing and takeoff of aircraft without the aid of navigation and communication systems, only with personal mobile phones. They have their job well and all this without catastrophic consequences.The Federal Aircraft Control Center at Memphis ended successfully done, the traffic for the airport a little lower, as they sent 11 aircraft to landin other states. The situation in many aspects, was saved by the fact that the majority of flights serving the Memphis Dispatching Center after 22:00 clock, and at this time the crisis had already been removed. The state of emergency has occurred approximately at 12:35 local time Clock. Namely, if the main communication line has been damaged, it ensures the functioning of all telephone sets and other means of dispatch of office automation equipment. It was possible to eliminate the interference, such as theRepresentatives of the Center Kathleen Bergen has informed journalists, only until 15:00. Until that time dispatchers working at your own risk.
Errors in the work of communication systems and radar location has helped the employees of the Memphis International Airport without the ability to exchange data with other transit services on the left. Meanwhile this information for commercial purposes is an indispensable condition for the control of the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Three out of nine radar systems of far-distanceMeasures have not, because what Memphis had to dispatching boundaries of the airspace controlled by them to deduce that within a radius of 400 km, has flights from seven countries.
The duty of the head of the liner, which was left unattended, the associated near transit services - in Atlanta, Georgia, Indianapolis, Indiana, Kansas City, Missouri and Texas. Try your employees as efficient as it was possible to alter the network of routes,Directed by aircraft to landing in the free airports.
The reason for this situation that has happened in Memphis, is not up to the present time, however, reveals the local government approves that the device could not be intentionally damaged. The representative of the Federation of Air dispatcher Douglas Church has declared to journalists: "The staff of the control center has been in a situation of chaos, when they had their own mobile phones for the maintenance of the applicationAirport works. Otherwise, they could not communicate to exchange data with other services and costs to each other the information about specific flights.
These emergency measures to a significant interference in aircraft service center in the area of the country where the passenger liner routes grid is very dense. Crisis at the airports of cities such as Charlotte and Atlanta affected. The area of the airspace controlled by the Memphis-dispatching center will be approximately 160 thousandsquare kilometers, including Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and also a part of the territory of the states of Alabama and Kentucky.
Douglas Church is of the opinion that the state of emergency dispatching center in Memphis, minor errors in the timing of the flights, which will cause quite a long time. The representative said the American Northwest Airlines that caused the accident, man has virtually no effect on the cancellation of the airline business: 13 flights were landing and 19other airports - all of 740 flights scheduled for this day. The administration of Delta Air Lines has announced that, from his six-liner could take undergone over time and the way of something more, has forced the changes.
Let us remember that at the airports happen often unforeseen circumstances that may affect the work of dispatching services. In most cases the reason for the emergency shutdown of electrical power because of corruption is theelectric main carrier, but there are very exotic cases, such as invasion of the insects to the largest airport in Romania, or the case where the equipment the dispatchers' does not work for some time in a Los Angeles airport due to a bird that sat on wire.
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