I-Team: FAA warned about possible air traffic sabotage years ago

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http://abc7chicago.com/travel/i-team-faa-warned-about-possible-air-traffic-sabotage-years-ago/328112/

By Ben Bradley
WLS
September 28, 2014

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- The ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team has learned that red 
flags were raised years ago about how sabotage or terrorism could lead to 
the air travel mess triggered by one man.

There is word Sunday night that it will be more than two weeks before the 
FAA facility in Aurora is operating normally again.

The I-Team has learned that "years" before 9/11, and 16 years before 
Friday's sabotage, government investigators warned the FAA about crippling 
consequences similar to what we're seeing now.

The air traffic controllers union says this shutdown is one of the most 
challenging situations faced by controllers and the FAA since the 
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

A disgruntled worker with access and opportunity brought air traffic 
control to a standstill in Chicago.

The head of the FAA told Illinois' senior senator in a phone call Sunday 
that the private contractor destroyed 23 of 29 control racks. Radar lines 
were cut. Computers set ablaze. The damage from the sabotage and 
subsequent firefighting effort - so severe the FAA is forced to rebuild 
its infrastructure in separate section of the Aurora air traffic control 
center.

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