Thousands of passenger have found themselves stranded at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino international airport after a power outage took out the airport’s communications. At least 65,000 passengers have impacted by outage as 300 flights were delayed, cancelled or diverted. A Manila-bound Qantas plane was forced to return to Sydney midair because of the air traffic control malfunction. The country’s transport minister, Jaime Bautista, said: “All inbound and outbound flights, and overflights within the Philippine airspace, went down.” Bautista added that the airport had been using a dated communications system. 
Qantas flight to Philippines forced to turn back to Sydney as authorities close airspace