Due to failures in a radar of the Ezeiza International Airportthe operation of Jorge Newbery Airport and the San Fernando International Airport was affected this followingnoon. “We are going to have delays”sources from Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 anticipated THE NATION. The problem, which started following 4:00 p.m., was solved minutes before 7:00 p.m.
“Due to failures in an Ezeiza radar, we are going to operate by procedure,” they informed this medium, while specifying that the most affected flights will be those of San Fernando. “They give priority to Ezeiza International Airport and Aeroparque”they indicated.
The radar in question operates the three airports of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), that is what caused them to be affected.
In particular, as warned by the company that is in charge of the airport headquarters, while a team of experts from the Argentine Air Navigation Company (EANA) works on the solution of the failure, the airports operate by manual procedure. “Flights are separated by 8 to 10 minutes”they explained.
The failure occurred in the secondary radar that assists the Ezeiza Control Center and is also used as a reference in the Aeroparque tower and the San Fernando International Airport. “It is the radar that serves the purposes of air control, military control uses primary radars and we use secondary radars,” said sources close to National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC).
And they underlined: “There was a data transmission problem, which was what complicated the operation that continues for the moment.”
Minutes before 19, the EANA confirmed the normalization of the radar. “The service is now fully normalized following a disruption occurred in a radar processing software module at 4:45 p.m., for which it began to operate by procedures applying air traffic control measures”reported the company, which added: “Thanks to the fact that the equipment has redundancy, the service might be restored within a few minutes.”
The problem occurred in the middle of closing extra-long weekend, when 3.2 million tourists and hikers toured the countryaccording to a report by the Argentine Confederation of Medium-Sized Enterprises (CAME).
Regarding tourists, the date concluded with a total of 1,320,000 tourists, which represented 20% less than the same holiday last year. However, this year the presence of international tourists had a greater volume.
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