According to a group of air traffic controllers, the recent system failure at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday might not have been totally unexpected. According to the group, authorities at Delhi airport were alerted to these vulnerabilities months ago.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) was notified in July by the ATC Guild of India, a group that represents air traffic controllers, that the current automation systems were out of date and urgently needed to be upgraded, according to NDTV report.

They claimed, however, that their recommendations were ignored.

Following the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives, the guild said they also wrote to MPs on July 8. They emphasised that "it is essential that the automation systems used in air navigati

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