{"id":51288,"date":"2015-06-04T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T08:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51288"},"modified":"2015-06-04T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T08:19:33","slug":"technical-glitches-in-naia-delays-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/04\/technical-glitches-in-naia-delays-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical glitches in Naia delays flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NAIA-facade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36198\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NAIA-facade-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"NAIA facade\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NAIA-facade-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NAIA-facade-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NAIA-facade-900x540.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Flights in Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) were delayed after its control tower radars bogged down for at least an hour on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown of primary and secondary surveillance radars delayed seven arriving flights including one that was diverted.<\/p>\n<p>The flight coming from Incheon, South Korea was diverted to the Clark International Airport because of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the radars are used to detect and measure the position of approaching aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Because of its shutdown, the traffic controllers had to rely on radio communication and visual contact to guide the pilots for a safe landing.<\/p>\n<p>CAAP spokesperson Eric Apolonio, meanwhile explained in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report that the incident was\u00a0\u201cjust a minor computer glitch. Fluctuations occasionally happen. CAAP did not find any damage to the radars that caused them to bog down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Flights in Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) were delayed after its control tower radars bogged down for at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}