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Thunderstorm activity caused telephone line outage from radar site to control room, resulting in loss of radar.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 338970 |
| Time | |
| Date | 199606 |
| Day | Wed |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601 To 1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | atc facility : ggg |
| State Reference | TX |
| Altitude | agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Person 1 | |
| Affiliation | government : faa |
| Function | controller : approach |
| Qualification | controller : radar |
| Experience | controller military : 5 controller non radar : 5 controller radar : 3 flight time total : 90 |
| ASRS Report | 338970 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | other anomaly other |
| Independent Detector | other controllera |
| Resolutory Action | none taken : unable |
| Consequence | Other |
| Supplementary | |
| Primary Problem | Navigational Facility |
| Air Traffic Incident | other |
| Situations | |
| Navigational Aid | Unspecified |
Narrative:
Radar OTS due to telephone company lines being OTS. Had a severe thunderstorm. Radar repaired from thunderstorm, but radar still out due to telephone lines.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: TSTM ACTIVITY CAUSED TELEPHONE LINE OUTAGE FROM RADAR SITE TO CTL ROOM, RESULTING IN LOSS OF RADAR.
Narrative: RADAR OTS DUE TO TELCO LINES BEING OTS. HAD A SEVERE TSTM. RADAR REPAIRED FROM TSTM, BUT RADAR STILL OUT DUE TO TELEPHONE LINES.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.