Marcos officials blame Duterte administration for colossal airport boo-boo

What really happened was an unbelievable howler: airport technicians plugged the 220-volt system to a 380-volt power line, damaging it.

THAT's the tack that President Marcos Jr.'s airport officials, particularly his Transport Secretary Jaime Bautista, are using to explain the unprecedented shutdown of the Philippines' airspace on New Year's Day, which resulted in the cancellation of flights to and from Manila, stranding 60,000 passengers.

top executive Manuel Pangilinan, whose flight from Tokyo to Manila was aborted because of the shutdown, was playing down what happened when he tweeted: '[Six] hours of useless flying but inconvenience to travelers and losses to tourism and business are horrendous. Only in the PH. Sigh.'QuestionsTamayo though didn't get to answer the questions that obviously should have been asked for him to clarify his statements:1.

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