The technical problems experienced last week at Bogota’s El Dorado airport are not critical, according to Colombia’s aeronautic agency.
“The civil aviation has begun the investigations from the technical perspective to establish the causes and search for solutions so that these situations do not keep repeating,” said Colombia’s Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (UAEAC) in a press release on Wednesday.
The UAEAC also claimed that problems with ground control radars were minor and that aircrafts entering Bogota airspace were always under proper surveillance.
The comments come a day after airport controllers’ union representative Carlos Arturo Bermudez harshly criticized El Dorado airport’s security mechanisms in an interview on Tuesday, noting airplanes often were left drifting due to the lack of control on the ground and that last week radar screens went “completely blank” for over an hour.
