[goldstategop]

Just LAX? I've always been able to find my home from there... with the shuttle van service. No way I'd drive there. Its too dangerous.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[bd476]

Coincidentally, almost one year ago on September 12, 2005:

NBC 4

DWP: Human Error Led To Widespread Outage

Outages Extend From San Fernando Valley To Downtown

POSTED: 12:53 pm PDT September 12, 2005
UPDATED: 10:18 am PDT September 13, 2005


Ron Deaton, general manager of the Department of Water and Power, said workers accidentally cut a line at a DWP receiving station, then connected it to another line "that was not expecting that amount of electicity."

Deaton said the system is designed to shut down when it receives too much power.

Power officials reported outages from the San Fernando Valley to downtown Los Angeles. Receiving stations take high-voltage power from generating stations and convert it to lower voltage. It can then be used throughout the city.

Power to DWP customers went out at about 1 p.m.

The cable was rewired, according to authorities, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said power was restored to 90 percent of Los Angeles customers within two hours of the outage.

Power was restored to all areas by Monday night.

Traffic lights, including ramp meters, were affected by the outages. Police reported several minor traffic incidents. About 1,500 of the city's more than 4,500 lights had to be manually reset.

"It was completely dark -- we had no air conditioning." - Sue Morris, woman trapped in elevator...

Excerpt and more: DWP: Human Error Led To Widespread Outage

[Cindy]

Thank you bd476.
Updates appreciated.

[JRios1968]

I'll be in the shower...let me know!

[ThomasThomas]

Didn't they fix this last month?

Ontario. The only way to fly.

[Mount Athos]

I know it is totally uncalled for and ridiculous in this case, but everytime something unusual happens at LAX, I immediately remember that this is the only airport in the USA terrorists have tried to blow up.

[Darkwolf377]

Michael Moore opening and closing his refridgerators all night will do that...

[ThomasThomas]

I check for flight delays at LAX website nothing unusual.

[bd476]

Nothing coming up on Google search other than August 2006:

Sensor in faulty landing system replaced at Los Angeles airport
Santa Maria Times, CA - Aug 18, 2006
... cited other recent troubles, including a power failure July ... are eight local localizers at Los Angeles International _ ... at each end of the airport's four runways ...

Q&A: Long and short of Meadows runway
Bakersfield Californian (subscription), CA - Aug 30, 2006
... energy source to avoid losing both in a power outage. ... been routed to Fresno or Los Angeles because of ... Administration, which collects taxes on airport fuel and ...

Flights at Los Angeles airport back to normal, some slight delay
The Desert Sun, CA - Aug 7, 2006
... planes onto a runway at Los Angeles International Airport ... a utility pole, causing a power fluctuation that ... The airport averages 1,800 daily flights and will ...

Equipment failure disrupts flights at Los Angeles airport
Hindu, India - Aug 7, 2006
... arriving planes onto a runway at Los Angeles International Airport ... in three weeks to disable part of the airport. LAX was hit with a major power failure July ...

Landing system outage hits LA airport for second time in a week
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Aug 15, 2006
... said Lydia Kennard, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, a ... The airport has had multiple problems in recent ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...

Landing system outage hits LA airport for second time in a week
North County Times, CA - Aug 14, 2006
... The FAA also ordered Los Angeles-bound flights departing from ... The airport has had multiple problems in recent weeks. ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...

Boxer Calls for Probe of LAX Flight Control Systems
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 18, 2006
... with answers given for the July power outage in Palmdale in ... in delays of 348 flights at Los Angeles International Airport and reverberations ...

Landing system failure strikes LA airport twice in a week
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Aug 15, 2006
... in an unrelated incident, a power outage blacked out more than 71,000 utility customers, including Los Angeles City Hall ... At the airport, the same system on the ...

California News in Brief
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Aug 8, 2006
... was the second serious problem in three weeks to disable part of the Los Angeles airport. On July 18, the airport was crippled by a power failure that ...

FAA still hasn't solved landing system failure at LA airport
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Aug 15, 2006
... equipment," Lydia Kennard, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports ... one of multiple problems the airport has had ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...

[bd476]

This just in:

Just a very short blurb on local news KABC Channel 7:

Power outage of unknown cause, affecting businesses around LAX and some businesses within the terminals. Bars and stores inside "the terminals" have experienced power loss and I believe they mentioned the Delta terminal as one of the terminals affected.

No reports of any flights being affected.

[ThomasThomas]

Did you know LAX.com

News on college and high school lacrosse in the USA.

No Airport Stuff

[bd476]

Ping.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Not good, lots of flights to asia leave between 10pm and midnight. Plus a few to europe and one to Tahiti.

bummer

[danmar]

LAX Los Angeles Power Outage

Why is this non-event a subject of discussion?
Are you telling me that LAX does not have backup generators to keep the system running, in case the main power supply fails?
Hard to believe, than again it is a slow and uneventful Saturday....!

[taxesareforever]

They are in the process of trying to find somebody who knows how to put the plug back in.

[bd476]

KCBS 2 KCAL 9

Power Outage Hits LAX, Nearby Businesses

September 2, 2006 11:23 pm US/Pacific

(CBS) LOS ANGELES A power outage hit parts of Los Angeles International Airport and nearby businesses Saturday night, A Department of Water and Power spokeswoman said.

The outage happened about 8 p.m., DWP spokeswoman Terry Schneider said. The cause of the outage is not known, but crews were attempting to restore power.

Lights were out on the tarmac at LAX and nearby hotels were also affected, according to news reports, but airport operations were not affected.

Power Outage Hits LAX, Nearby Businesses

[Yaelle]

You onto this yet? Or on vacation?

[A CA Guy]

Never hit me the other day at all, but I am near 20 miles south east.

[dfwgator]

"Just kidding."

[BurbankKarl]

There is going to be another big, horrible incident at LAX one of these days, and all of the overpaid political hacks are going to stick their heads in the sand and point in 8 different directions.

The head of LA Airports takes home a quarter million a year, yet the service, security and sustainability of the complex deteriorates each month.