'Aircrafts are taking off and are landing but the space capacity has been reduced because of what's going on.' flights at Houston's Hobby Airport are experiencing delays after power was knocked out at the airport's air traffic control center.
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Flight operations have been"scaled down" due to the outage, the airport wrote at 9:45 a.m. on its Twitter account."Please check your flight status before coming to the airport," the airport said.A small fire to a generator caused the outage, officials told. The fire was ignited due to an"electrical issue" with the generator for the FAA tower, Houston Airports spokesman Augusto Bernal said.
The FAA approach control in Houston is using air trafficking controllers to manage air traffic from the airport, according to Bernal.
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