O'Hare International Airport, Chicago Midway airports re-open air traffic after fire

• Chicago train derailment: opA contract employee set a fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control centre where he worked, bringing two of the nation's busiest airports to a halt Friday, according to a criminal complaint.
  
  
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The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago charges Brian Howard, 36, with one count of destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities, a felony. The FBI said Howard remains hospitalized due to his injuries and that no court date for him has been scheduled. When paramedics found him, he was trying to cut his own throat, the complaint said.
Delays and cancellations rippled through the air travel network from coast to coast after the fire. The ground stoppage at O'Hare and Midway airports immediately raised questions about whether the Federal Aviation Administration has adequate backup plans to keep planes moving when a single facility has to shut down.
By late afternoon, about 1,950 flights in and out of Chicago had been cancelled. A few flights resumed around midday, after a nearly five-hour gap. The planes were moving at a much-reduced pace, officials said, and no one could be sure when full service would be restored.