Air traffic center outage disrupts Southern California flights LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A power outage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center Tuesday cut communications and brought incoming and outgoing flights in Southern California to a standstill, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. ?We lost everything, we lost all power to phone lines, computers, everything,? said Allen Kenitzer, a regional spokesman for the FAA. The outage was reported around 6 p.m., Kenitzer said, and the cause was not known. The center is located in the High Desert near Palmdale.