Senators on Thursday castigated the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines for alleged lax security as aviation authorities remain clueless about the root cause of the massive disruption of flights on New Year’s Day. | melvingasconINQ /PDI
“I can’t seem to believe the fact that the system just conked out on its own,” Zubiri said. “It could be three possible scenarios: one was really incompetence of our personnel at that particular point in time; maybe the outdated equipment, and probably third could be sabotage.”He said that any negligence or sabotage could have been captured by closed-circuit television cameras inside the equipment room.
“There’s national security concerns here,” Zubiri said. “We, with Sen. Bato dela Rosa … we feel that we need to protect this system at all cost from any form of sabotage or incompetence.” DOTr Undersecretary Roberto Lim said that Sumitomo-Thales ceased the maintenance contract for the CNS/ATM because of DOTr’s supposed failure to settle up to P986 million in unpaid claims.
Tamayo admitted that they had not yet ascertained the root cause of the circuit breaker malfunction, saying they may need to subject it to a “forensic investigation.”Sen. Grace Poe, chair of the Senate committee on public services, urged Caap to get a third-party maintenance provider for the CNS/ATM to avoid a repeat of the Jan. 1 glitch.
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