Senator Grace Poe, chair of the Senate subcommittee on transportation, yesterday said the five-hour power outage that hit the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) over the weekend was not only embarrassing but downright frightening. Poe said she finds the situation alarming and urged transportation officials to prevent similar incident from happening in the future as it exposes the risk of air passengers’ safety in the Philippines. “It’s not only embarrassing – it’s frightening. Just think one of our major airports was hit by the blackout,” Poe told reporters in an interview at the sidelines of the Partido Galing at Puso’s political rally in Valenzuela City, Monday night. “It’s a good thing that air traffic was not affected, because we’re concerned of the safety of the passengers. Who would have thought that all the generator sets were not working at that time,” she said. The presidential aspirant said the [...]
