CIVIL Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Deputy Director General for Operations Edgardo Diaz said he is willing to face external investigations over the Ninoy Aquino International Airport technical glitch on New Year’s Day.
“Our internal investigation is ongoing, and we will try to complete it as soon as possible. If there will be an external investigation, we will welcome it,” CAAP Deputy Director General for Operations Edgardo Diaz said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
“Based on our initial internal investigation, we had a power failure that caused the shutdown of our Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) System, which is used by our controllers as visibility of planes in our airspace. There’s something wrong with the uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). Our engineers are looking into it,” Diaz added.
At the House of Representatives Deputy Minority Leader Bernadette Herrera of Bagong Henerasyon party-list sought for a joint Senate and House probe on the malfunctioning of the country’s air traffic management system.
“An incident as massive as this service outage at NAIA air traffic control deserves a joint Senate and House investigation. The service outage affected not just passengers but also many tons of cargo, incoming and outgoing, and this has lingering effects on businesses and the economy,” Herrera said in a statement.
