Days after a major air traffic control (ATC) failure at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) disrupted more than 800 flights and led to several cancellations on Friday, aviation engineers have written to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, warning that the incident exposed years of systemic neglect and the continued use of outdated technology within the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

In a letter sent on Sunday to Civil Aviation Minister Gautam Yogendra, Chief Coordination Member of the Air Traffic and Safety Electronics Personnel Association (ATSEPA–India), the representative body of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) engineers, said the latest breakdown “has once again highlighted a long-standing and serious concern repeatedly raised by ATSEPA–India: the negle

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