Radar-center glitch results in minor delays at JWA

An hour-long disruption at a San Diego-based radar center that guides flights into 21 Southern California airports caused only minor delays at John Wayne Airport on Friday morning.

“By the time they had called me, everything was already running smoothly; there was not that much of an impact at all,” spokeswoman Rachel Gibson said.

Airport controllers could not see maps for the hour-long disruption, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A radar facility in Palmdale reportedly took control of flights that were already in the air during the outage, and all flights that had not taken off were delayed.

— Amanda Pennington