Delhi airport back to normal after 15-hour tech failure
Delhi's main airport is running normally again after a 15-hour tech failure in its flight plan system left air traffic controllers scrambling to do things by hand.
The glitch, which began Thursday afternoon and resulted in a full outage early Friday, jammed up automated flight info and caused a lot of manual work behind the scenes.
Over 800 flights were hit with delays
Over 800 flights were hit with delays at one of the world's busiest airports. Teams from AAI and ECIL hustled to fix things, and by late Friday night, the system was back online—though some delays lingered into Friday.
Some flights were canceled on Friday, but there were no cancelations on Saturday.
Civil aviation ministry digs into what went wrong
This mess has pushed the civil aviation ministry to dig into what went wrong and look at ways to make these critical systems stronger.
Controllers had already flagged that upgrades were overdue—so this might finally get things moving toward better tech at India's biggest airports.