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Darkness.

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SHUTDOWN.

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It was Dec. 17, 2017, when an underground electrical fire caused Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to go dark, stranding 30,000 passengers.

For 30,000 passengers stranded at the airport, it was controlled chaos with limited lighting, spotty communications and little idea of what would happen next.

No flights, no lights, and no wi-fi.

What to do and where to go - airport and airline personnel scrambled to help, but the airport had never seen anything like this before.

“There’s nobody to help me and I don’t know what to do,” said one airline passenger as she sat alone with little idea of when she might get to her flight.

“Obviously what happened on December 17 was the perfect storm and a total anomaly - everything went wrong," said Tom Nissalke, assistant general manager of planning and development for Hartsfield-Jackson said.

https://www.11alive.com/article/travel/airport-blackout-a-year-later/85-86415a7d-e626-4d15-9be9-894c1773c7f0

Investigation underway to determine cause of Atlanta Airport blackout

An underground fire caused a complete power outage Sunday afternoon at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, resulting in thousands of canceled flights at the world's busiest terminal and affecting travelers worldwide. https://www.electricityforum.com/news/atlanta-blackout