Days after a major Air Traffic Control (ATC) failure at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport disrupted over 800 flights and caused several cancellations, aviation engineers have written to the Civil Aviation Ministry, warning that the incident exposed years of systemic neglect and outdated systems within the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

In a letter sent on Sunday to the Minister of Civil Aviation, Gautam Yogendra, Chief Coordination Member of ATSEPA (India), the association representing Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) engineers, said the latest crisis “has once again highlighted a long-standing and serious concern repeatedly raised by ATSEPA (INDIA): the neglect of CNS infrastructure and the continuous sidelining of technical inputs provided by CNS engineers

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