Demanding more answers and accountability for an epic fail as monstrous as the New Year’s Day airport shutdown, senators will start grilling concerned transport and aviation officials about the fiasco next week, even while still in recess.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros said the coming Senate probe must also tackle allegations that funds worth P13 billion meant for the modernization of Caap’s communications, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management system were just diverted to “cosmetic projects” during the term of then Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade.Reached for comment on Tuesday, Tugade dismissed the allegation as being “farthest from the truth.
“They recommended, monitored and implemented. Ask them,” Tugade said in a Viber message to the Inquirer.“Given these competing claims , a thorough investigation must be undertaken to identify the incident’s proximate and the contributory causes,” Hontiveros said. In a phone interview, Alexander Cauguiran, former president and chief executive officer of the state-owned Clark International Airport Corp. , said backup radar systems for international airports such as Clark International Airport and the one in Mactan are needed, “at least to minimize inconvenience in the future.”
According to Jose Victor Luciano, also a former Ciac president and CEO, setting up a CNS/ATM system today would cost around P15 billion. “This is what the committee wants to know—accountability: where did it all go wrong, was this a ‘force majeure’ or an act resulting from negligence, and whose negligence?” said Robes, who was one of the inbound passengers inconvenienced by the airspace shutdown.
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