John Wayne Airport Power Outage Forces Controllers To Guide Planes With Portable Radios – Huff Post LA

A Frontier Airbus taxies at Santa Ana with the control tower in the background. Photo: Chris Jacobs - OPShots Contributor

The John Wayne airport had a brief power outage that forced controllers to guide planes with portable radios.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A brief power outage at a Southern California airport’s air traffic control tower on Sunday forced controllers to use portable radios to communicate with pilots and caused several flight delays, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The outage at John Wayne Airport in Orange County lasted a little more than an hour, agency spokesman Ian Gregor said.

The tower had been running on an emergency ge

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