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Old 09-25-2007 | 11:03 AM
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Just noticed on the FAA's OIS website that all traffic to and through ZME is ground stopped due to equipment outage and that ZME is entire off the air.
Anyone have any more info?
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Old 09-25-2007 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by cessna157
Just noticed on the FAA's OIS website that all traffic to and through ZME is ground stopped due to equipment outage and that ZME is entire off the air.
Anyone have any more info?
http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=7126318
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Old 09-25-2007 | 11:39 AM
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Ahh touché

Looks like they're having a bad day all over the place. CLT, DFW, DAL, EWR, IAH all have some sort of communications delay today. Sunspots anyone?
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Old 09-25-2007 | 12:39 PM
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BellSouth lost a trunk line in the area and it ended up taking out a few radar sites and land line communication between other ARTCC as well as remote transmitter sites throughout ZME's airspace. THis causes a lot of delays because the majority of ZME's air traffic is overflights from DFW, IAH, ATL and others, so this causes the delay. Although if you listen to some crazy aviation analyst on FOX news, he would leave you to believe that it is due to the FAA's inadequate equipment. Which is funny since ZME upgraded to the new DSR consoles years ago and has nothing to do with the problem they are faced with right now.
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Old 09-25-2007 | 02:04 PM
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Fed Ex could have a very fun night if this isn't resovled in short order.

Maybe the media will find somebody else to blame for delays than us. Oh wait, I'm sure this is our fault too.
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Old 09-25-2007 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilotpip
Fed Ex could have a very fun night if this isn't resovled in short order.

Maybe the media will find somebody else to blame for delays than us. Oh wait, I'm sure this is our fault too.
Everything went back online about an hour ago. FedEx should be in the clear by tonight all the delays should be worked out.
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