http://www.rapp.org/archives/2006/07/things_fall_apart/ "Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue..." Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rapp.org/archives/2006/07/things_fall_apart/comment-page-1/#comment-19763 Micah Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:07:36 +0000 http://www.rapp.org/archives/2006/07/things_fall_apart/#comment-19763 Here's a <a href="http://www.natca.org/mediacenter/press-release-detail.aspx?id=394">press release about it</a>:   Here’s a press release about it:

 

]]> http://www.rapp.org/archives/2006/07/things_fall_apart/comment-page-1/#comment-19762 Hamish Reid Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:41:34 +0000 http://www.rapp.org/archives/2006/07/things_fall_apart/#comment-19762 The original (Yeats, of course) is " Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...", which is even better :-). Anyway, they apparently lost all power, radios as well, due to the backup's backup failing to detect that the backup generator had also failed after a while. Total loss of power happened a decade ago at Oakland Center, with similar sorts of results, and with no plan in place... The original (Yeats, of course) is ” Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…”, which is even better . Anyway, they apparently lost all power, radios as well, due to the backup’s backup failing to detect that the backup generator had also failed after a while. Total loss of power happened a decade ago at Oakland Center, with similar sorts of results, and with no plan in place…

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