30 July,2010 08:22 AM IST | | Surender Sharma
US supplier to look into Wednesday's radar failure
The US manufacturer of the radar that failed at the Delhi International airport on Wednesday, delaying the landing of the flight carrying British Prime Minister David Cameron, has been asked to look into the matter and rectify the errors.
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"The system was under validation process. All across the world such problems occur when system is being validated. Reython, the US supplier, will look into the causes and take remedial measures so that such incidents do not recur," said an official spokersperson for the Air Traffic Control.
As many as 50 flights got affected on Wednesday evening, including the flight carrying British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was arriving from Bangalore.
However, ATC spokesperson remained in denial mode, refusing any delay caused in the landing of the plane carrying the British premier. "We had another system on standby, so no such thing happened," he added.
Meanwhile, 13 flights were delayed that operated through newly opened terminal 3 on the first day of operations at Delhi airport.u00a0 A total of 102 flights operated from the new terminal on the first day.
Between 4.45 pm on Wednesday evening and 6.00 am on Thursday morning, the terminal handled around 48 incoming flights and 54 departing ones.
"On the first day of the operations, 10 flights were delayed due to airlines related problems while one Malaysian airlines arriving flight was delayed due to problems in aligning the aerobridge. A Lufthansa and a British Airways flight got delayed due to improper handling of baggage," said Andrew Harrison, Chief Operating officer, DIAL.
