In a nightmarish scenario for airport authorities, IGI's air traffic control (ATC) suffered a reported systems failure on Tuesday evening. The trouble began around 6pm and prevented the ATC radars from giving flight details of all the blips -each representing an aircraft coming in to land at Delhi or flying nearby.
Given fears of a possible terror attack, the ATC's difficulty in identifying aircraft co uld have become a security issue. An airline official said authorities must probe whether it was a regular technical failure or a cyber attack.
To handle the situation, the ATC went "pro control" -giving a time gap of almost five minutes between two arrivals and an equally big gap between two departures. This led to serious delays during peak departure time in the evening, which continued till late into the night. Around 9pm, the ATC reportedly asked other airports to delay departures of Delhi-bound flights.
05/10/16 Anvit Srivastava & Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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Given fears of a possible terror attack, the ATC's difficulty in identifying aircraft co uld have become a security issue. An airline official said authorities must probe whether it was a regular technical failure or a cyber attack.
To handle the situation, the ATC went "pro control" -giving a time gap of almost five minutes between two arrivals and an equally big gap between two departures. This led to serious delays during peak departure time in the evening, which continued till late into the night. Around 9pm, the ATC reportedly asked other airports to delay departures of Delhi-bound flights.
05/10/16 Anvit Srivastava & Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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