Power outage at Karachi airport

KARACHI: A power breakdown plunged the entire airport area into darkness a little after midnight intervening on Sunday and Monday.

Civil Aviation Authority officials, when contacted some 15 minutes after the breakdown, told Dawn that due to some technical reasons, the generators did not took over automatically after the breakdown that caused delay in the supply of alternative power.

They said it might take another 20 minutes at least to energise the alternative power supply system.