New Delhi:
Flights have resumed at Delhi Airport, after a gigantic systems crash at the Air Traffic Control. All take-offs were aborted for an hour starting 6 pm. At least 25 flights have been delayed.
The entire system, called the Autotrack 2, and its radars, collapsed at 5:45 pm on Thursday, when there were several flights about to land, and 3 departures scheduled. The Air Traffic Control could not use its radars to monitor flights. So they had to use VHF (very high frequency) communication to learn the status of different flights.
Area Control Radars, which track the position of incoming and outgoing planes, crashed.
As a security precaution, planes were asked to stay 80 miles apart in the sky instead of the standard 10 miles to avoid mid-air collision.
All flights passing Delhi were also affected.
The entire system, called the Autotrack 2, and its radars, collapsed at 5:45 pm on Thursday, when there were several flights about to land, and 3 departures scheduled. The Air Traffic Control could not use its radars to monitor flights. So they had to use VHF (very high frequency) communication to learn the status of different flights.
Area Control Radars, which track the position of incoming and outgoing planes, crashed.
As a security precaution, planes were asked to stay 80 miles apart in the sky instead of the standard 10 miles to avoid mid-air collision.
All flights passing Delhi were also affected.
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