270 Flights Cancelled Across the Philippines Today After Reported Technical Issues with Power Supply and Flight Radar System. UPDATE: Resolved.
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270 Flights Cancelled Across the Philippines Today After Reported Technical Issues with Power Supply and Flight Radar System. UPDATE: Resolved.
Causes reported due to power supply issue, then power surge affecting equipment. 345 flights affected and nearly 60K passengers. Concerning vulnerability for airline industry operations revealed.
Manila airport in chaos after reported technical issues, here too which started this morning about 9:50 am. Local contacts report the airport radar system is down due to failure of power supply. Would this allow anyone to land undetected? An entire country transport system disabled due to a power disruption.
There are no flights arriving to Manila now.
Here is Cebu.
Here is Davao.
NAIA Flight Tracker, here. A few domestic flights, and international enroute. Many cancelled or unknown status!
The was apparently updated at 4pm. However, as of now, just after 6pm, the above is the flight status.
Will update further with a post, or in the comments once additional information is known.
270 Flights Cancelled Across the Philippines Today After Reported Technical Issues with Power Supply and Flight Radar System. UPDATE: Resolved.
As of 4 pm, 282 flights had been cancelled or diverted to other airports. Situation reported as being partially resolved.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1711301/phs-airways-system-partially-restored-says-miaa-over-56000-naia-passengers-affected
Looks like flight infrastructure is being targetted. This is the third big event globally this week I think, involving the IT infrastructure of airline companies.