> A commercial pilot friend of mine was flying to NY on the night the
> lights went out. The lights below just blinked out like a big cloud
> suddenly arrived. The ATC voice disappeared mid sentence. And he
> looked down at the panel just in time to see the VOR go to "off".


I imagine the thought of nuclear war occurred to him for a moment or two.

While working for NZ Telecom I was talking to our head office 450 odd miles
away in Wellington city when connection via the internal phone system cut
out. Dialled back - dead. Tried outside lines to Wellington - dead. Tried
other Wellington numbers - dead. Turned out that we lost ALL comms to
Wellington in one  hit - a most unusual event. Can't even recall why now but
the redundancy planners would have had some explaining to do.

        RM

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