Senate panel report rules out sabotage, cyberattack in New Year’s Day airport fiasco


MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The Senate committee on public services, chaired by Senator Grace Poe (pic), has ruled out sabotage and cyberattack in the New Year’s Day airport catastrophe.

In a speech on Tuesday (March 7), Poe also said that the panel’s inquiry found that no data have been compromised due to the mess that affected at least 65,000 travellers and cancelled, delayed, or diverted around 600 flights.

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