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A “power problem” grounded flights Thursday at Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
Local 10 News obtained the transmission between traffic controllers and pilots during the outage.
“OK everybody on this frequency use extreme caution,” a traffic controller is heard saying. “We’ve lost all communication, we’ve lost all radios, we cannot see you.”
“Everybody on this frequency use caution,” said another traffic controller. “We cannot see you on the radar.”
A spokesman for MIA said that the power outage was minor and that only a handful of flights were grounded shortly before noon.
However, Bergen confirmed shortly after that the FAA issued a ground stop for all flights into MIA, FLL and South Florida satellite airports because of a power problem at the Miami Terminal Radar Approach Control.
“Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center has taken over the airspace normally handled by the TRACON and is safely handling flights that are in the airspace,” Bergen said in a statement.
Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesman Greg Chin said shortly after 12:30 p.m. that the FAA was allowing some flights and departures at a limited pace. Bergen said all systems were restored shortly after 1 p.m.
“The facility is operating on generator power with commercial power available as a back-up,” Bergen said. “We are investigating the source of the commercial power outage.”
Courtesy of local10.com
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