CHENNAI: The airport has been receiving remote radar support from air traffic control (ATC) centres in Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, Nagpur, Mumbai and Kolkata to route overflying aircraft since the night of December 1 when officials shut the city airport after torrential rain inundated the tarmac and other parts of the facility.
Chennai ATC also used satellite navigation systems to guide aircraft. Several flights from Europe to Southeast Asia and Australia fly over Chennai, whose airport is located on the route connecting the West and East.
Airports Authority of India conducted a massive exercise involving 1,000 employees to fly in crucial spares from Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram to repair radar and instrument landing systems that helps aircraft to home in on runways and other navigation aid damaged in floods.
AAI regional executive director I M Murthy said floods damaged instrument landing systems, radio navigation systems and a new radar %that officials were waiting to commission.
"We received the entire feed of the IAF radar at its Tambaram airbase helped us divert international flights headed to Chennai after we shut the airport on the night of December 1," Murthy said.
Air traffic control centres in Kuala Lumpur helped the Chennai ATC guide aircraft flying from Australia and Southeast Asia to India, the Middle East and Europe, he said, adding that radar at Yangon in Myanmar also helped officials guide and track aircraft east of the city and Nagpur and Mumbai ATCs took care of those west and northwest of Chennai.
07/12/15 The Times Of India
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Chennai ATC also used satellite navigation systems to guide aircraft. Several flights from Europe to Southeast Asia and Australia fly over Chennai, whose airport is located on the route connecting the West and East.
Airports Authority of India conducted a massive exercise involving 1,000 employees to fly in crucial spares from Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram to repair radar and instrument landing systems that helps aircraft to home in on runways and other navigation aid damaged in floods.
AAI regional executive director I M Murthy said floods damaged instrument landing systems, radio navigation systems and a new radar %that officials were waiting to commission.
"We received the entire feed of the IAF radar at its Tambaram airbase helped us divert international flights headed to Chennai after we shut the airport on the night of December 1," Murthy said.
Air traffic control centres in Kuala Lumpur helped the Chennai ATC guide aircraft flying from Australia and Southeast Asia to India, the Middle East and Europe, he said, adding that radar at Yangon in Myanmar also helped officials guide and track aircraft east of the city and Nagpur and Mumbai ATCs took care of those west and northwest of Chennai.
07/12/15 The Times Of India
