New Delhi14 minutes agoAuthor: Mukesh Kaushik/Sujit Thakur
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The picture is of outside Delhi Airport on 7th November. Thousands of passengers were troubled due to flight delays.
A high-level investigation is being conducted into the sudden disturbance in flights at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. It is also being seen in the investigation whether any external force or cyber attack was involved in this.
According to sources, the Central Government had called a high-level meeting at the National Security Advisor (NSA) office on Friday evening itself. In this, all other stakeholders including airport, security agencies were summoned.
In this, orders have been given to investigate the sudden malfunction in the flight plan system. In this, it is being ascertained whether the system malfunction was due to any external interference or sabotage? Also, the possibility of cyber attack is also being investigated.
On 7 November, flight operations were disrupted for more than 12 hours due to a technical glitch in ATC’s Automatic Message Switch System (AMSS) at IGI. More than 800 domestic and international flights were delayed while 20 had to be cancelled.
Suspicious because… the fault in the automatic system lasted for more than 24 hours.
ATC (Air Traffic Control) sources said that this is an unprecedented incident of the malfunction lasting so long since the implementation of the automated system. Flight operations at Delhi Airport were disrupted for almost 24 hours. Disturbances in the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS) are a clear suspicion that this could be a major coordinated cyber attack. This problem, which started from one terminal, caused the entire system to hang.
Claim- Incident of technical glitch could have been avoided at Delhi Airport
Air traffic controllers (ATC) claimed that this incident could have been avoided. According to media reports, ATC Guild of India said – We had alerted the Airport Authority of India (AAI) in July this year about the flaws in the airport’s automation system and the need for upgrade, but no action was taken on it.
Take off and landing with auto system only An ATC official said that before the implementation of AMSS, flight plans were received from airlines manually. After the introduction of this system, flight plans started being received through messaging and on the same basis decisions about take off and landing started being taken from ATC. After the system crash, manual work had to be done at the airport on Friday.
Airport officials have issued an advisory for passengers. It said AMSS is constantly being improved but passengers should stay in touch with their airlines to get real-time flight information.
Now know the whole matter of 7th November
Flight operations were affected for more than 12 hours on Friday due to a technical glitch in the Automatic Message Switch System (AMSS) of Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Delhi Airport. More than 800 domestic and international flights were delayed and 20 had to be cancelled. The fault in the system occurred at 9 am. It was around 9:30 pm.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) had said in the evening that the AMSS system is active and now working properly. Due to system glitch, passengers were troubled throughout the day at the airport. There were long queues near the boarding gate. According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, all flights were delayed by an average of 50 minutes.
The effect of flight delay at Delhi airport was also visible at many airports across the country including Mumbai, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Amritsar. Flights going to and from Delhi were also delayed. Indigo, Air India, Air India Express, SpiceJet and Akasa Airlines had given information about flights throughout the day.
3 pictures of Delhi Airport…
A large number of passengers were seen waiting outside the counters of Delhi Airport on Friday.
There was a long line of passengers at the aerobridge of Delhi airport.
When many passengers arrived at Delhi Airport on Friday morning, they had to wait for 30-50 minutes.
Know what is Automatic Message Switching System
AMSS (Automatic Message Switching System) is a computer network system associated with the Air Traffic Control Service. Thousands of text-based messages are sent in real-time to pilots, ground staff and other airports every day through AMSS.
What happens in these messages-
- Complete information about each flight’s route, altitude, fuel etc.
- when did the flight take off
- when did the flight land
- flight delay notice
- Plan changed or canceled
- weather updates
- warnings in airspace
How does this work?
Airlines or pilots draw up flight plans. AMSS checks that data and sends it to the right place (ATC, other airports, concerned airline). If the route or weather changes, the system immediately sends updates to everyone. This keeps the entire air traffic route in sync.
What happens if AMSS doesn’t work?
If the system fails, like it happened in Delhi –
- Automatic messages off: Flight-plan, route clearance and updates have to be done manually.
- Workload on ATC: Every message or approval has to be sent by humans themselves.
- Delays and Congestion: When it takes time to approve a flight-plan, takeoff-landing becomes slow. This increases the crowd at the airport.
- Security Risk: In the absence of automatic coordination, the possibility of human error increases.
ATC is the traffic police of airplanes, understand from AI images
Air Traffic Control (ATC) is the central controlling system present at airports. It issues instructions to aircraft on the ground, in the air and in different parts of the sky. In simple language, it is like the traffic police, but only for aeroplanes.
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