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发帖数: 6388 | 1 https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-in-chicago-air-traffic-
workers-at-midway-airport-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
The FAA is closing the air traffic control tower at Midway International
Airport, after three workers there tested positive for COVID-19.
The control tower was closed at 5 p.m. Chicago time. Air traffic control
operations for Midway will be temporarily moved to another FAA facility. The
tower at Midway also is being cleaned and disinfected.
“The airport remains open and operations will continue at a reduced rate
until the situation is resolved,” the FAA said in a statement.
CBS News reports the airport will now operate one flight in, one flight out.
The arriving and departing pilots will announce themselves over a common
radio channel, essentially the same procedure for how one would fly into a
municipal airport without a tower. Once airborne, pilots will communicate
with Chicago TRACON, an FAA radar facility in Elgin. Departures will
organize by departure time, and hold short of the runway until the arriving
plane clears. Then the first one up will announce and take off. |
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