Air conditioning at airport restored
A black PVC pipe was coupled to a concrete water pipe that broke Wednesday at Honolulu Airport. The broken pipe leads to the underground baggage area that was flooded.
The air conditioning has been restored to all but one small area at Honolulu International Airport this afternoon.
Dan Meisenzahl, transportation department spokesman, said repairs to a 2,000-foot-long concrete pipe, which loops around the terminal and supplies cold water that cools the airport, were completed late last night.
A second leak detected Wednesday night that shut down the system in the international arrivals area was not as extensive as originally believed, he said.
Meisenzahl said air conditioning had been restored in all but a portion of that one area by this afternoon.
The air-conditioning system went out about 2 p.m. Tuesday after a break in an old chilled-water pipe that was installed in 1972.
Meisenzahl said most of the airport has cooled down, and portable fans and air-conditioners are in the one area still not on line.
