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Unrelated power failures Tuesday morning in Manoa and at Honolulu Airport closed schools and delayed dozens of interisland flights, respectively.
The first incident began late Monday night when a car knocked down a utility pole on University Avenue near Maile Way at about 11 p.m.
Police said two people were in the car and that paramedics took a woman in serious condition to the Queen’s Medical Center.
The accident initially knocked out power to 1,000 electricity customers, but Hawaiian Electric Co. crews were able to restore power to 750 customers shortly after the crash, a spokeswoman said. The remaining 250 customers got their power back by 11 a.m., a HECO spokesman said.
Police closed University Avenue between Kaala Street and Maile Way while crews replaced the utility pole and reattached lines.
Mid-Pacific Institute and St. Francis School canceled classes but will reopen today.
At the airport, a breaker malfunction caused a power failure at the interisland terminal at about 4:30 a.m., state Department of Transportation spokesman Daniel Meisenzahl said.
Power was restored three hours later, but by then Hawaiian Airlines was dealing with a significant backlog of outbound and inbound flights. Seventy-five interisland flights were affected, with delays ranging from six minutes to 21⁄2 hours, Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Keoni Wagner said.
Hawaiian put two spare aircraft into service and called in reserve flight crews to work, Wagner said. The airline held back a morning flight to Los Angeles for about an hour to wait for connecting passengers, he said.
Meisenzahl said the airport had completed testing its emergency electrical generation system at 4 a.m. when the power went out in the interisland terminal. Other areas of the airport were not affected.
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