It could be a bad day for air travelers. All Chicago air traffic was stopped early Friday morning because of a fire at an air traffic control facility.
Arson fire too. Been shut down for several hours now and starting to hammer flights all over because of connections.
10:00 update
More than 700 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport as a result of the fire, and more than 150 were canceled at Midway International Airport, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation.
Aurora Police Chief Greg Thomas said a contract employee at the facility apparently set the fire, and suffered burns and self-inflicted knife wounds. CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports it was not immediately clear if the employee was deliberately trying to sabotage equipment at the facility, but Thomas said there was no explosion and the fire was not a terrorist act.
