http://abcnews.go.com/US/contract-em...ry?id=25775192

Jesus what a hell of a day.

There we are flying into ORD this morning when at about 6 am ATC comes on says "Um, 3564, yeah you might want to slow down...we just lost contact with Chicago."

What? WTF does that even mean?

Apparently, this guy managed to shut down the en route control for a large part of the US Midwest. Thousands of delays and cancellations costing probably millions of dollars. What a nightmare.