The president announced a meeting with the authorities that control the air terminal.
Dumek Turbay, mayor of Cartagena.
Courtesy Mayor’s Office of Cartagena.
The mayor of Cartagena, Dumek Turbay Paz, spoke on the failures presented this Saturday in the Rafael Núñez International Airport. The president requested a meeting with the parties involved to deliver a detailed report of what happened.
Exactly, the mayor mentioned the Civil Aeronautics and the operator in charge of the air terminal, OINAC.
In his x trill, he wrote: once the inconvenience is resolved on the landing suspension at the @aeroCTG on Saturday night, according to @aerocivilcol for “an interference in communications with the control tower”, from @alcaldiactg CWe are important to carry out a joint work table with this administrative unit And the airport operator (OINAC), so that we are informed in detail what happened and why it happened, “Turbay Paz said.
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The mayor demanded information about the operational reliability of the airport, due to the high demand of national and international passengers. Until the moment of this publication, an answer is unknown by the aforementioned entities.
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What happened?
On the afternoon of Saturday, July 26, users of the Rafael Núñez International Airport of Cartagena, disseminated through social networks in which they reported the delay of national and international flights, on account of technical failures and interference in broadcasting, according to the report of civil aeronautics, an entity that was pronounced moments later through an official statement.
“Faced with the external technical situation due to interference in sound broadcasting in the control tower of the Rafael Núñez airport of #Cartagena we reported that,, Air operations are temporarily suspended. ”
During this time, passengers were damaged in the waiting rooms and in different videos they evidenced the number of users affected by delays. Among the recommendations issued by the responsible entities, passengers were suggested to contact the corresponding airlines to be notified of possible changes in their flights.
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Around 8:30 at night, Through the official accounts of the Cartagena Airport, it was reported that the operation was gradually restored throughout the terminal. However, until the moment of this publication there is no official balance or data of how many flights and passengers were affected.
Source: Integrated information system
