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Elkhart airport tower closed after lightning strikes; board authorizes soliciting repair quotes
Summary
A lightning strike damaged Elkhart airport tower radios and field systems; the airport manager told the board the tower remains closed, South Bend is handling traffic, and the board voted to solicit repair quotes while staff pursues insurance and temporary fixes.
Andy Jones, the airport manager, told the Elkhart City Airport Board that lightning strikes earlier this summer damaged radio and electrical systems in the airport’s air traffic control tower and related equipment, leaving the tower without dependable communications and prompting the chief controller to close the tower.
Jones said the airport initially ran temporary communications and lighting fixes but that the problem deteriorated until the controller ordered the tower closed. “Everything in my report is gonna be related, I think, primarily to the lightning strikes,” Jones said. He told the board the airport has been working with emergency-radio contractors and an insurance adjuster and that…
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