The malfunction, which occurred inside a telephone company‘s switching office, made it impossible for air controllers at FAA’s Memphis Center to communicate normally with adjoining centers to hand off control of flights,
Radar fails in Memphis; hundreds of flights affected – CNN.com
I find it interesting the article keeps the “telephone company” anonymous. If the phone company were to be outed, certainly the article would provide a bit of (bad) publicity.
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