The airport control tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California remained unmanned for nearly five full hours on Monday (October 6) due to a staff shortage caused by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown , according to ABC Los Angeles .

The airport's operations were instead run remotely by Southern California TRACON, which already remotely handles a lot of the Southern California air traffic, amid the lack of air traffic controllers in the tower. Hollywood Burbank Airport experienced significant cancellations and delays, having continued flights at around 11:00 p.m. local time, one hour later than its typical voluntary curfew of 10:00 p.m.

"You'd like to have somebody local that can see what's going on, visually, right?" said Kimberly Riddle of Tracy, California, via ABC Los

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