Cut cable delays LAX landings

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Cut cable delays LAX landings
By Jennifer Oldham
Times Staff Writer

November 8, 2006

Flights into Los Angeles International Airport were delayed for several hours Tuesday afternoon and evening after a contractor working on the southernmost runway sliced through an electrical cable.

The accident, which occurred about 2:20 p.m., cut power to several series of lights that pilots use to orient aircraft for takeoff and landing on a second runway on the airport's south side. Delays ranged from about 30 to 60 minutes.

The power interruption forced officials to shut down that runway about 5 p.m. and transfer all operations to two runways on LAX's north side, reducing the number of aircraft that could arrive per hour from 72 to 36, said Paul Haney, an airport spokesman. That curtailment continued until about 6 p.m., but authorities said it would take at least a few hours more for the airlines to catch up with their normal schedules.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lax8nov08,1,6284542.story

[Webster Green]

1. Oh man, I feel for the contractor..

That must have ruined his day, big time.

I was laying fiber optics and lighting cable all through the Orlando airport for awhile. You have to be really careful digging around existing cable runs. If you screw up, you face huge fines.