Flying blind: 18 radar failures in just 2 months

New Delhi: In just two months — July and August, 2010, there have been 18 instances of radar failures at six airports including the busiest ones like Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
Aviation minister Praful Patel told Lok Sabha on Thursday that Delhi's IGI Airport had one of its two radars non-functional for four hours after a cable link got cut on August 3. "However, operations were not affected since the second radar was working," the reply said. Giving details of radar failures at other places, he said Ahmedabad airport had this problem five times on July 1, 3, 5 and 7 and on August 20.
Mumbai airport had this issue thrice on July 9 and 14 and August 4. Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram Guwahati airports and the Behrampur aeronautical communication station suffered this problem twice each. Varanasi had radar malfunction on July 23, 2010.
27/08/10 Times of India

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