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MANILA - A POWER outage crippled Manila's main
domestic air terminal on 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. -- AFP
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