Chicago flights temporarily halted due to smoke in radar tower
N Staff Reporters May 13, 2014 12:29PM
RAW: Reports of smoke at Elgin FAA Center...
An evacuation following reports of smoke at the Elgin FAA Radar Facility has forced ground stops at O'Hare and Midway.
ARTICLE EXTRAS
Updated: May 13, 2014 4:09PM
A fire in a bathroom ceiling fan sent smoke billowing through an Elgin FAA facility Tuesday, shutting down takeoffs and landings for several hours at O’Hare International and Midway airports, canceling hundreds of flights and disrupting air traffic across the region, officials said.
More than 600 flights were canceled out of O’Hare and another
Comment
-
Comment by guest_blog on May 13, 2014 at 7:03pm
-
-
The Elgin TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) facility was evacuated at about 11:30 a.m., according to a statement from the FAA. Elgin police said there was smoke coming from a faulty motor in an HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) unit at the facility.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/all-chicago-flights-halted-due-to-smoke...As a result of the evacuation of the Elgin TRACON, a ground stop was issued at O'Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport, meaning all flights in and out of the airports were halted.
More than 600 flights at O'Hare and 75 at Midway with both airports still reporting significant delays as of 3 p.m.
"Destroying the New World Order"
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SITE!
Latest Activity
- Top News
- Everything
"Remember that song by Alan Parsons "Eye in the Sky"?"
ancient lost worlds ~ DNA
"The area of Ket and Selkup peoples.There have been groups of people that have long…"
FEYNMAN: THE QUEST FOR TANNU TUVA (1988)
"Wow. And as strange coincidence this could be the very place of the great migration ( to America,…"
FEYNMAN: THE QUEST FOR TANNU TUVA (1988)
100th birthday present! Richard Feynman (1918-88), physicist, and his friend Ralph Leighton became fascinated by the remote and mysterious Asian country of T...
"That's right. Many countries head down that road into a terrorising future of Self ID-ers. (…"
Terror on All Hallows Eve Pt. 2 The Aftermath
Elizabeth had just gotten home from Junior High when the doorbell rang. She’d barely put her books…See More
"cheeki kea, I fear that we are headed further down the road of inhumanity institutionalized by the…"
© 2025 Created by truth.
Powered by
You need to be a member of 12160 Social Network to add comments!
Join 12160 Social Network