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View all search resultsAirport to conduct audit of systems after blackout
The management of Soekarno Hatta International Airport has said it will conduct a thorough inspection of its electrical systems after a third power blackout in recent weeks caused at least 63 flights to be delayed and shut down crucial flight control systems on Friday
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he management of Soekarno Hatta International Airport has said it will conduct a thorough inspection of its electrical systems after a third power blackout in recent weeks caused at least 63 flights to be delayed and shut down crucial flight control systems on Friday.
“Other airport operators in the country will also conduct similar audits,” Tri S. Sunoko, airport operations director at PT Angkasa Pura II, told reporters on Saturday.
State-Owned Enterprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar has instructed Angkasa Pura and state power company PT PLN to investigate the blackout.
Mustafa gave the two companies three days to learn what led to Friday’s blackout, which was the third to hit the airport in recent weeks. He said such an incident should never happen again.
On Aug. 3, a blackout hit the airport after a loading crane fell on a power cable at Muara Karang power station in North Jakarta.
The Indonesian Air Carriers Association has said it plans to sue PLN, the sole electricity provider in the country.
“We will file a lawsuit against PLN if the company and other related institutions do not seriously investigate the cause of this incident,” the association’s secretary-general, Tengku Burhanuddin, said as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.
Friday’s blackout, which lasted for less than two seconds, disrupted crucial computer systems at the airport.
It took more than two hours to manually reset all of the airport’s computers, checkpoint scanners, air traffic control equipment and radar system, causing long queues of passengers at Terminals 1A and 1B.
The airport’s backup generators can produce 7,200 kilovolt-amperes of electricity, which is about 24 percent of of the airport’s electrical draw of 30,000 kilovolt-amperes.
Angkasa Pura spokesman Andang Santoso said that on early Saturday all flights were running on time again.
The blackout delayed 22 Garuda Indonesia flights, 10 Sriwijaya Air flights, 10 Lion Air flights, nine Batavia Air, four Air Asia flights, two Citilink flights and flights of Mandala Express, Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Star Air and Royal Brunei Airlines.
