Opinion: Three in a Row Airport Outage -- More Than Meets the Eye?

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 Twelve days into 2023, there had already been three major outages on three international airports.

The first one was the outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and it affected air traffic in the whole country, stranding thousands of passengers.

Days after, there was similar outage in the US that also affected flights nationwide also stranding thousands of passengers.

Then the same thing happened in Canada!

The first time it happened, I can accept that it is an isolated case however simplistic the explanation was.  But three in a row? I think something more serious is happening here.  I hope I'm wrong BUT this is by far quite alarming and my "spider sense" is tingling!  I hope I am wrong here though.

I will closely follow this and write about what I discover.



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