NewsWhore
09-06-2006, 06:40 PM
A lightening strike on the radom at Las Americas International Airport sizzled the radar unit and left the airport operating on manual. The Director General of Civil Aeronautics said that the radar was being repaired as quickly as possible. Air traffic controllers are handling flights like they did years ago after the lightening strike of the very top of the dome burned up the radar's electric circuits. The airport handles 70 flights a day.
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