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The local paper ran a story that due the the CHS VOR being OTS was causing airlines to divert to SAV and CAE. It was down Thursday and affected 17 flights. How could the VOR cause diverts? I'm not sure of the wx at the time, but the paper did not mention if the ILS was down as well.

There are several other VORs within 200nm (Vance, SAV, CRE, CAE) that could have been used to get to CHS.

Any ideas?

Thanks