Flights are back up and running in New Zealand after a radar fault caused service delays yesterday afternoon.
Air New Zealand apologised for the international network failure this morning, which resulted in the grounding all commercial airlines at airports across the country.
The fault occurred at around 2.40pm yesterday, cancelling a number of services and leaving passengers waiting at various gateways.
Fifty planes were flying around New Zealand when the network failure occurred and were guided down onto the runway by radio.
According to Radio New Zealand, the radar went back online at 4.30pm, but flight delays continued throughout the day.
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission has opened an investigation into the failure and Chief Operating Operator Pauline Lamb, says the group has already ruled out a possible hacking.
“It certainly was one area that we went into immediately because you’ve got to be open to every eventuality.”
Pauline Lamb, Transport Accident Investigation Commission Chief Operating Operator
“But it’s highly, highly unlikely that this event was caused by any such penetration.”
She explained that accessing the system requires six levels of authentication and there was no evidence of a hack.
Today, airlines are scrambling to get their planes back in the air and reschedule passengers on new services.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused by yesterday’s events. Please check with your airline re flight schedule https://t.co/ASkyGDNaHx
— Airways New Zealand (@AirwaysNZ) June 23, 2015
