Thirty nine domestic flights were delayed or turned back following a radar fault which grounded services across the country. On Monday afternoon, New Zealand's air navigation service provider Airways said there was a fault with its main air traffic system and it was operating on its back-up standby system. International flights operated on a different system and were not affected by the fault, Summer said. During that time, airborne international flights were unaffected as the main Oceanic control centre is independently managed from Auckland. Kendall Hutt Some international and domestic flights have been delayed following a radar fault which grounded services across the country.

Source: Stuff September 30, 2019 00:58 UTC