Re: Cynical Me
Yup, I know of an instance where a certain country's largest airport's ATC systems were literally two minutes away from a complete power failure. Mains power didn't come back after some issue with switching between that and the genny (I did hear the gory details, but my understanding of what's what was limited). The contract electrician (no more on-site sparkies after "efficiency" cuts) had to be called out from the other side of town (a town with awful road congestion at the best of times).
The only reason the whole lot didn't go down was due to the site manager and staff literally running around the ops building and tower powering down every single piece of electrical equipment that did not concern the tower cab's ATC display systems and nav aids. Was there any review in terms of obtaining another genny and/or onsite sparkie during operational hours? No.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
