Widespread power outage including Suvarnabhumi?

[KhunBENQ]

Just found at Richard Barrow.

Major power outage at BTS and Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok Airport).

Anyone confirm/experienced?

Seems fixed now.

Edited December 4, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[Thian]

Why are there no reply's? You guys all out of power now?

Did the lights of the landingstrips also go off? That's pretty dangerous i would think. Don't they have generators as a backup on the airport?

[Thian]

Thinking about it this could be a perfect chance to go through customs illegally. Just pay the electricians to turn off the power.

[KhunBENQ]

Very few details to be found in English.

An article in Thai says that about 1000 passengers on the BTS/rail link were stuck for about half and hour.

The airport (building?) was completely dark for 10 sec until emergeny backup started.

No flight delayus.

The cause is under investigation

[Thian]

Well 10 seconds is not that much to be a problem.

But 30 minutes for the skytrain worry's me more. I'll take a taxi.

If the skytrain runs out of power above the roads in full sun (no more aircon) then what we're gonna do? Walk over the tracks?

[KhunBENQ]

Well 10 seconds is not that much to be a problem.

The 10 seconds were just for the emergency backup to start.

10 seconds in the complete dark (except maybe some battery emergency exit lights or so).

9 minutes until normal supply came back.

Not dramatic compared to the outage where the complete flight control went down (some years? ago).