Power outage hits NAIA Terminal 3

[dreamur]

If I were Pnoy, this is where I draw the line -Abaya and Honrado should submit their resignation papers on Monday! You want to support the administration yet you have this embarrassing situation that slaps you in the face and leave you hurting ang frustrated. Meantime Abaya will just issue a general statement that he will look into the generator system when obviously it is more than that. What an incompetent and ineffective head that should be severed with a sharp ax!

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[zoomzoom]

5 oras? Sobra naman yan.

Anyare sa backup?

"Unaccepatable" is an understatement for this situation.

Oh baka naman praktis yan para sa Election Day?

Congrats PAbaya, Honrado, et. al., di pa rin kayo patatasikin.

Palpak pa more.

[NightRock]

Parang mas worse pa ang T3 kesa T1 I can't imagine 5hrs na walang power yon nga may power napakainit na sa loob lahat ng passenger pawisan lalo na mga 3PM pag palubog na araw sakto sa depature

[Monseratto]

Sino magiging scapegoat dito?

5-HOUR AIRPORT POWER OUTAGE
One generator set at NAIA-3 failed —DOTC chief
Published April 3, 2016 2:43pm

A drained generator set probably due to poor maintenance was one of the reasons of the five-hour power outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) that left hundreds of passengers stranded.

"Sabi niya may na-drain [na battery]. Hindi nagkick-in ang isang genset (generator set) natin. May drainage sa battery power... Hindi nag-transmit ng power sa building (NAIA-3) mismo," Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya told radio dzBB in an interview on Sunday morning, referring to NAIA-3 manager Octavio Lina.

Abaya said that there were 10 gensets at the NAIA-3 and that the other nine worked.

"Batteries ang pinapaliwanag sa atin kung bakit hindi nagkick-in to the switch gears," he added.

Abaya said that there is a possibility that the gensets were not properly maintained.

"I have to check... Tinitingnan natin if it was fully drained, there was no charing prior to this, it was charged but did not switch...," the transportation secretary said, enumerating possible reasons why the genset failed.

He said that airport officials failed to immediately determine the real cause of the power outage because their priority was to restore power so that operations would resume.

The blackout at the NAIA-3 happened at past 8 a.m. and power was fully restored at past 2 a.m., Abaya said.

The NAIA-3's operations were fully restored before noon Sunday, based on an advisory by the Manila International Airport Authority on its Facebook account.

The MIAA said the power outage at the NAIA-3 happened after a substation of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) at around 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

Meralco, meanwhile, said that the glitch was restored in less than a minute.

It said that the five-hour power outage could have been caused by "trouble on the customer's loadside."

More than 100 flights were canceled and delayed following the power outage.

Heads will roll?

Asked if "heads will roll" over the rare power outage, Abaya said their priority was to restore the operations of the NAIA-3.

"Alamin natin kung ano ang tunay na dahilan para hindi maulit muli... Ang 'heads will roll' madali na po iyan," he said.

Meanwhile, Abaya said that he will order the full checking of all gensets at the NAIA and other big airport nationwide.

“If the problem is maintenance, then we have to check not only in Manila but dapat tignan muli ang maintenance procedures ng airport nationwide,” he said.

Security and safety

Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) spokesperson Eric Apolonio, meanwhile, said that procedures are in place for similar emergencies to assure the safety of passengers.

Apolinio said the airlines were immediately informed of the situation through their communications tower.

“Kapag nagkaroon ng power glitch, automatic po ‘yan na advised ang mga airline na umiikot to go on hold muna,” he said.

Apolinio explained that the separation time between the arriving and departing airplanes from airlines had to be prolonged.

A report by the Philippine News Agency said some flights that were supposed to land on the NAIA-3 were diverted to the other NAIA terminals (1, 2 and 4) that were not affected by the outage.

Apolinio assured no violations of the safety procedures were committed during the power outage.

“Inspite na kulang ang power sa nasabing terminal ay nakalapag naman at nakaalis ang mga airlines although medyo na-delay,” he said.

He also reminded the passengers of the cancelled and delayed flights of their claims as inscribed by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights.

“Protektado naman ang mga pasahero diyan. Kaya wala po silang dapat ipag-alala. Ang mga airlines po ay i-a-assist sila,” he said.

Meanwhile, Apolonio said that standby gensets would naturally fail in case a whole terminal is hit by a blackout.

“Kapag standy gensets talaga ang ginagamit, mediyo mahina talaga ang binibigay na kuryente at apektado ang security process screening. Ang NAIA ang laki-laki niyan, malaki ang equipment,” he said. —Kiersnerr Gerwin Tacadena/ALG, GMA News

- See more at: One generator set at NAIA-3 failed —DOTC chief | News | GMA News Online

[chua_riwap]

So yung battery nung isang gen set na-drain yung power, whic is used to crank up the 9 working gen sets, tama ba?

Malas lang.....
Halatang walang nagro-routine maint sa mga gen sets ng T3.

[StockEngine]

Tahimik nanaman si Pnoy?

[kimbon]

If I were Pnoy, this is where I draw the line -Abaya and Honrado should submit their resignation papers on Monday! You want to support the administration yet you have this embarrassing situation that slaps you in the face and leave you hurting ang frustrated. Meantime Abaya will just issue a general statement that he will look into the generator system when obviously it is more than that. What an incompetent and ineffective head that should be severed with a sharp ax!

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bro IMO suntok sa buwan yan si abaya will submit his resignation to Pnoy? malaki ang pakinabang ni Pnoy sa kanya. kung walang silbi na sino man sa member ng cabinete ni Pnoy adios kaagad like what happened to Binay. heto ang palaging sinasabi ni Abaya sa media interview... "I serve at the pleasure of PNoy" onga naman ano ang paki ni Abaya sating mga taxpayer?
Palace: Abaya serves at the pleasure of PNoy | ABS-CBN News

OT- bro bat ba di mo na lang pina divert ang arrival ng mga plane kagabi sa mala isla mong rancho??? hehe

[yebo]

emergency generators are suppose to run every week and put on line once a month. i worked at the heart center many many years ago (late 80's) and this was the standard practice even then. to me this means they are not doing their weekly test run and monthly "on load" test of their generators, both to test the generators, the synchronizing system and the switch gears. and 5 hours! nah, somebody is lying there somewhere. i think they were either out of diesel or the people in-charge did not know what to do.

also, sabi ng meralco na-restor ang power from the substation after 1 minute. how hard is it to throw a transfer switch? improperly maintained or they do not know.

[Stigg ma]

emergency generators are suppose to run every week and put on line once a month. i worked at the heart center many many years ago (late 80's) and this was the standard practice even then. to me this means they are not doing their weekly test run and monthly "on load" test of their generators, both to test the generators, the synchronizing system and the switch gears. and 5 hours! nah, somebody is lying there somewhere. i think they were either out of diesel or the people in-charge did not know what to do.

also, sabi ng meralco na-restor ang power from the substation after 1 minute. how hard is it to throw a transfer switch? improperly maintained or they do not know.

i agree, we do this at BPO's to ensure generators will kick-in in an event of an power outage, foreign clients just won't accept the fact that most calls gets disconnected when the city power dies...

they ran out of diesel thats the most logical thing... the airport is full of vehicles with batteries they can collect to start-up the generators, but the main fault is not practicing proper genset maintenance, ensuring it will work when needed...

a lot of things can happen when the power is out, either you can bring in things (or out) in the darkness of the night

[1D4LV]

what i don't believe is the lack of a backup power source. airport yan eh. the backup source should ensure that take-offs, landings and loading and unloading of passengers are not affected.

dapat dyan tinawag na lang si john mcclaine para makita ang reason.

[CVT]

Onli In Da Pilipins!

Singhot pa more!


"The measure of a man is what he does with power" LJIOHF!

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[1D4LV]

Onli In Da Pilipins!

Singhot pa more!


"The measure of a man is what he does with power" LJIOHF!

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smell something fishy...

Meralco: No scheduled power outage | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

The five-hour power outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) on Saturday night was not caused by a technical glitch at the airport substation of the Manila Electric Co., Meralco spokesman Joe Zaldarriaga said yesterday.

He explained that Meralco personnel inspected the site and found no problem with the substation circuits, leading them to conclude that the problem lies with the NAIA and its system.

“Our team’s inspection revealed that Meralco has nothing to do with the power outage at the NAIA Terminal 3 for five hours,” Zaldarriaga said.

The Meralco inspection team, he said, arrived at the NAIA substation at around 1 a.m. yesterday to conduct inspection and repairs on wirings that could have caused the power outage but found nothing wrong with the facility.

He also said that establishments near the terminal did not have the same problem, suggesting that the fault lies with the NAIA.

[CVT]

smell something fishy...

It's not just fish, bro....

With beef, bacon and eggs pa....

Bonus pa more sa mga namumuno!

Talagang ayaw mawala ng Pilipinas sa headlines....


"The measure of a man is what he does with power" LJIOHF!

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[_Cathy_]

Parang mas worse pa ang T3 kesa T1 I can't imagine 5hrs na walang power yon nga may power napakainit na sa loob lahat ng passenger pawisan lalo na mga 3PM pag palubog na araw sakto sa depature

Yan din naisip ko. I better avoid all airlines in T3