Radar goes out of order at IGI, flights disturbed

The flight movements had been disrupted for almost half an hour at Indira Gandhi International airport for about half an hour on Wednesday evening from 17:50 hrs to 18:20 hrs when the radar crashed creating chaos in the airport’s air traffic management system. The crashed radar had been installed in March and since then there were no such failure like the present one ever before.

It was the older Auto track II system that took the control and managed the air traffic for time being until Auto track III was restored to normal. These Auto track systems control the radar installed on different parts of airport.

“It was good that not many aircrafts were around Indira Gandhi airport during the time of crisis. Some aircrafts were asked not to change its route to other airports but hover over IGI zone for the time being till the Auto track II was brought into action”, said an airport official.

From some sources media has revealed that this is not the first time that Auto track  software has collapsed.Actually,this is the third time that the air traffic management system has underwent this catastrophe. During the installation test of Auto track III system by US company Raytheon’s the system had crashed twice.

“There was a slight problem with the Auto track III software which has been resolved. Flight schedules have not changed and everything is back to normal and under control”, said an Airports Authority of India spokesperson.

Terminal-3 has been made operational from today onwards with some flight operating out of there.

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