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New Zealand grounds all flights after radar failure
Operations resume after system was restored in about two hours; officials say safety was never compromised
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, Jun 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Wellington
NEW Zealand grounded all planes on Tuesday after a radar failure prompted the authorities to halt commercial flights across the nation, stranding hundreds of passengers including at the main hub of Auckland.
The outage was caused by an internal network fault at about 2:40 pm local time, Airways New Zealand, the government agency that operates the radar and air traffic control system, said in a statement on its website. Limited operations resumed 80 minutes later and full services half an hour after that, the agency said. Aircraft were permitted to land during the outage.
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