Power Outage Cripples Philippines Airport
A power outage crippled Manila's main domestic air terminal Tuesday causing more than 50 flights to be delayed, officials said.
Hundreds of travellers were left stranded in the run-down domestic terminal where services were brought to a standstill for most of the day.
Some 54 flights by domestic carriers Asian Spirit and Cebu Pacific were delayed, the Manila International Airport Authority said in an advisory.
"We are experiencing a technical problem at the Manila domestic airport," the advisory said. "We appeal to the public to bear with us as we try to put into place our rehabilitation programme for the old domestic terminal," it added.
The power outage was caused when the airport's main circuit breaker malfunctioned at dawn, and electricity was cut off from the domestic terminal.
"The circuit breaker short-circuited, we are now trying to fix it to restore power supply," said Bing Lina, the airport's assistant general manager for operations.
He said back-up generators were providing limited electricity but computers were still not functioning.
Television footage showed visibly irate and perspiring passengers spilling onto the waiting area outside the terminal.
3 comments:
Circuit Breaker short circuited huh!
Quoting from Philstar report... "At least 80 percent of power was restored last Friday after the old 2,000-watt circuit breaker was replaced by a new 2,500-watt breaker."... And Circuit breakers are now rated in watts... hehehe...or I'm missing something here? :-D
Hehehe. That's it. What's going on?
What can you say about circuit breaker philippines
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