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[Year] Oct 2000 [Description] Eastbourne, GB: Staff at an Eastbourne hospital carried out a caesarean section operation by torchlight after emergency generators failed to start after a power cut. Eastbourne district general hospital's two emergency generators, which are computer operated, failed to start after lightning hit the town's power supply at 2.15am. The problem was compounded when the computer registered that the generators had started, so when mains power returned 20 seconds later it was prevented from entering the hospital's mains. [References] Guardian Oct 12, 2000 [Name] 
Blackout due to IT failure
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