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Gov’t to wrap up New Year’s Day airport glitch probe in 2 weeks

January 18, 2023

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An inter-agency body expects to complete its investigation into the power outage that crippled the country’s air traffic navigation system in the next two weeks.

Transportation Undersecretary for Aviation Roberto Lim said representatives from the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) comprise the investigating body.

According to Lim, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) inhibited from participating in the investigation.

Representatives of the agencies have already visited the CNS/ATM site and have gathered relevant testimonies from personnel manning the critical system, Lim said.

“They inspected the relevant parts of the facility, they have interviewed people, testimonies from people directly involved in operating, manning and supervising the CNS/ATM,” he said.

Meanwhile, CAAP director general Manuel Antonio Tamayo said they have recommended the following measures to improve operations. These include procurement of a multi-mode fallback system (system upgrade), construction of an independent back-up CNS/ATM, and the hiring of a third party contractor to provide oversight on the operation and maintenance of the system.

“To avoid this kind of circumstance recurring, we recommend the following plans for the CNS/ATM: restore and enhance to its original design before the incident, procurement of the multi-mode fallback system which is considered a systems upgrade,” Tamayo said.

“It is true that any man made equipment can’t be 100% perfect all the time but we want the public to know that we shall do the best we can in order to provide an efficient service to our country and to Aviation sector,” he added.

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