Originally Posted by
Brat
Seems strange that an airport emergency power back-up system was unable to cope...one imagines that every major airport has some form of standby power that operates outside the mains system. There is a form of aux power but seems to be just for peak demands times.
No doubt the several ILS systems went to standby power. Probably the tower as well. Beyond that there is not sufficient backup power for the computer systems for Delta and the Custom services.
Sad, if the local power company did it all in through carelessness.