If you’re flying an airplane at 30,000 feet, in the clouds, communicating with Chicago Air Traffic Control Center, here’s something you really don’t want to hear over your headset:
Chicago Center is evacuating. Radar service is terminated….Good luck.
But that’s what numerous pilots heard on the early morning of September 26, 2014, after a fire was set by a saboteur in the equipment racks at Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Flying Magazine has a story about how controllers and tech staff faced with this situation worked rapidly, flexibly, and creatively to avoid accidents and minimize the disruption to traffic. Other organizations should take note.
Thank you. You just inspired a product.
If you like stories about commercial aviation, the book “Touching History” is excellent. It is about 9/11 and written by an airline pilot.
My review of it.
TML…care to provide a hint as to what the product might be?
I’m building a data set to make US governance legible to the people (if I can make it profitable, that’s likely what I’ll do the rest of my life). In a sense that is the product but very few will likely want it directly. More popular would be pulling a slice out, packaging it attractively and selling it. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ways to slice and each a different product. Take a piece of infrastructure, game out what happens when it suddenly goes dark, and make a report and a sort of penny dreadful out of it. The penny dreadful is the new bit.