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Re: Detroit Power Failure

  • From: Edward Vielmetti
  • Date: Tue Jun 13 23:42:06 2000 
There are two airports in Detroit, Detroit City Airport (DET, a smallish
airport in town that Pro Air flies out of) and Detroit Metro Airport (DTW,
the Northwest hub).  The only reports that I have seen indicate that the
problems were limited to DET.

Ed

On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> 
> The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford
> and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm.  Detroit airport
> is operating on emergency power.  Detroit Public Lighting's computer
> center also lost power.  DPL is hooking up portable generators to its
> computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and
> when it will be repaired.
> 
> Associated Press reports repeated calls to DPL resulted in a busy signal.
> 
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