Soetta Airport Terminal 3 Power Off, Flight Operations Remain Normal

Atmosphere of Soetta airport during a power outage/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - Terminal 3 Soekarno Hatta Airport (Soetta), Tangerang City reportedly experienced a blackout. This was confirmed by the Senior Manager of Branch Communication and Legal at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, M Holik Muardi. He said the incident occurred on Friday, July 22, at 19.31 WIB. However, the incident did not cause panic. "It is true that there was an electric flicker in terminal 3 at 19.31 WIB. There was no panic," said Holik when confirmed by VOI, Friday, July 22, evening. In addition, Holik also said that the power outage at Terminal 3 of the airport only lasted 0.1 seconds. So that the incident did not interfere with flights at Terminal 3 Soekarno Hatta Airport, Tangerang City.

"About 0.1 seconds. And now it's back to normal in general, it doesn't interfere with operations at the airport," he explained. Furthermore, his party is still manually checking the electricity flow at Terminal 3 of Soekarno Hatta Airport. "Indeed, there are several tools that need to first ensure that the electricity flow is stable, then it will be done manually for the process to turn on. But it has an impact on the system," he said. "So the system needs to be restarted, so it takes time. If I had communicated with Terminal 3, this really needed a process to restart the system. So the information that I got earlier was that there was a flash of electricity from PLN and currently the (complete) process is on," he added.