California traffic controllers forced to use mobile phones during brief communications crash

According to the Washington Examiner, air traffic controllers at a major control center in California say they were reduced to using personal mobile phones to guide dozens of airplanes when the communications system briefly crashed.

The communications outage deprived about half of the roughly 80 controllers on duty at the Oakland Center in Fremont of telephone and radio communications for several minutes Wednesday morning.

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