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How one Manhattan power room downed FAA air traffic control in 1991

Original: One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991 Article URL: https:// matthorn.io/posts/2026-10-18-3

A new write-up recounts how a single electrical power room in Manhattan, at 3 Thomas Street, caused a failure of FAA air traffic control in 1991. The piece traces the outage's technical chain of events and its implications for infrastructure resilience and single points of failure in critical systems.

Why now: Readers are drawn to engineering stories about how small infrastructure failures can cascade into major outages.

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• One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991 Article URL: https:// matthorn.io/posts/2026-10-18-3 3-thomas-street/ Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0153229 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 https:// matthorn.io/posts/2026-10-18-3… · techwire@gamefan.net · 2

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