{"id":131057,"date":"2019-06-28T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131057"},"modified":"2019-06-29T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T23:22:07","slug":"aircrash-averted-in-kenya-15-planes-put-on-hold-in-air-as-airport-hit-by-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131057","title":{"rendered":"Aircrash averted in Kenya: 15 planes put on hold in air as airport hit by power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Air-Crash-Averted-In-Kenya-15-Planes-Put-On-Hold-In-Air-As-Airport-Suffers-Power-Outage.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s aviation authority (KCAA) has explained what caused diversions and delays at the country&#8217;s main international airport in the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the KCAA claimed that &#8220;an Uninterrupted Power Supply unit for the Radar&#8230; encountered a fault. The Radar was turned off to allow for a replacement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Operations were disrupted for 95 minutes to make sure that passengers were safe, it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Two flights were diverted and 15 were put in a holding pattern in the air while the problem was sorted out.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s aviation authority (KCAA) has explained what caused diversions and delays at the country&#8217;s main international airport in the capital, Nairobi. In a statement, the KCAA claimed that &#8220;an Uninterrupted Power Supply unit for the Radar&#8230; encountered a fault. The Radar was turned off to allow for a replacement&#8221;. Operations were disrupted for 95 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7604,950,12577],"class_list":["post-131057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-aviation","tag-kenya","tag-uhuru-kenyatta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}