As the US government shutdown continued on the seventh day, Nashville International Airport’s air traffic control tower on Tuesday became the second tower to go dark amid staff shortages.

According to CNN, the tower at the beloved Tennessee hub will shutter at 7pm until midnight. The pilots wanting to fly into the Nashville airport have been told to contact the regional air traffic control centre in Memphis to get clearance before entering the airspace.

On Monday, the control tower at California’s Hollywood Airport was forced to shut down for several hours due to a lock of air traffic controllers.

The shutdown that began on October 1 has left scores of unpaid air traffic controllers and airport staffers calling out sick – crippling more than a dozen major travel hubs from New Jersey and

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