A power outage caused hours of chaos and delays at Los Angeles International Airport this week because a secondary power source that was designed to keep the flow of electricity to terminals and other facilities malfunctioned, officials said Friday.
Passengers reenter Terminal 1 after officials evacuated because of a power outage this week. Getting passengers to be cleared again through security became the challenge.
The airport operated on the backup power Thursday as crews with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power worked all day to repair the damaged underground power cable near Sepulveda Boulevard and 98th Street. Without power, airline staffers weren’t able to move jet bridges to deplane passengers aboard flights that had landed. Departing flights at other airports were grounded to avoid landing aircraft without available gates for passengers to use, which was one of the primary reasons for the delayed and canceled flights, Montgomery said.
Airport staff distributed water, blankets, snacks and personal hygiene kits to travelers in the affected terminals during the outage, officials said.
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