Disaster was averted because aircraft managed to communicate with more distant back-up facilities.
In New York, back-up facilities are now being placed in New Jersey or even farther afield.
A Lions spokesperson said the tourists' medical staff fully sympathised with the family of the deceased but were "surprised" at the lack of adequate back-up facilities which led to the subsequent delay in treating O'Driscoll.
Suthep's supporters have blockaded at least seven big Bangkok intersections and are also trying to stop ministries from functioning, forcing many to remain closed, with civil servants working from back-up facilities or from home.
As its buildings are now able to withstand a severe earthquake, many financial institutions including AIG, a huge insurer have put emergency back-up facilities in Kobe.Officials also plan a pitch to potential foreign investors who already have a connection to the area.
The possibility exists, therefore, for nations and institutions to go and head-hunt the best scientists in the world, promising them a lab and back-up facilities if they can first win an ERC grant.
And the 50-person company, which currently manufactures its goods at an "FDA-certified facility" in Missouri, will be seeking out back-up facilities where it can churn out even more of its products, assuming a newer, broader base of customers discover Soylent on their retail shelves.
Modern back-up facilities are available at Nilphamari as well.
Three random back-up facilities were selected in case initially selected facilities proved to be inaccessible or in an insecure area.. Field work was done by the International Medical Corps (IMC) with assistance from Al Kindi College of Medicine and the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.
When the economy turned down and credit became harder to find, many companies suddenly called on their back-up facility.
The Bank of New York discovered it had been unwise to keep its main back-up facility only two blocks from its head office.
