PLDT Inc. Chairman Manuel Pangilinan, who was among the thousands of air travelers affected by Sunday's outage of the Air Traffic Management Center (ATMC), on Monday offered to colocate backup systems in the group’s data centers.
, including Pangilinan’s flight from Tokyo to Manila, which had to return to Haneda Airport more than halfway through the trip.
Once the system was reconnected to the power supply, however, warnings were released at around lunch time due to over voltage as 380 volts were coming in instead of 220 volts. Transport officials have since called for upgrades of the system, including the establishment of a backup system located elsewhere.
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