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Peru’s Air-Traffic Radar Briefly Fails as Corpac Activates Protocols, Restores Service

Investigators are probing the brief failure following the use of procedural separation to keep flights safe.

Overview

  • Corpac reported a short national radar interruption on October 6 that technicians detected quickly and resolved within minutes.
  • Controllers applied standardized contingency measures, increasing procedural separation between aircraft to maintain safe operations.
  • Media accounts described an outage lasting up to about 20 minutes, with some flights delayed or rescheduled, while Corpac said operations remained safe.
  • The company emphasized the incident occurred during a low-demand period, and some passengers experienced residual delays as schedules were reorganized.
  • Corpac says the cause remains under investigation, with technical evaluations underway alongside ongoing modernization efforts for Peru’s air navigation infrastructure.