Human error to blame for Statue of Liberty power outage

The Statue of Liberty has her 'juice' back after a partial power outage that lasted for a couple of hours.

The incident on Tuesday night sparked speculation on social media that it was done deliberately for Wednesday's "A Day Without A Woman" protest.

But it was actually a case of human error.

National Park Service spokesman Jerry Willis says the lights went out during a work project and returned at 11:45pm.

The crown and torch kept shining.

Mr Willis says Liberty will experience some more outages over the next few weeks - this time on purpose - while workers install a new emergency generator as part of Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts.