Midwest Airline Radar System Is Back on Line
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CHICAGO — After its third failure in a week, an aging computer radar system that tracks planes across the Midwest was back on line Tuesday with edgy controllers waiting for the next breakdown.
Controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration’s control center in suburban Aurora switched back to the main computer early Tuesday after a daylong shutdown.
If the backup fails, controllers say, about 9,500 airplanes flying daily through Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota would have no radar coverage.
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