Senator Grace Poe on Monday, February 20 said the Senate Committee on Public Services' report on the New Year's Day air traffic fiasco would be ready for plenary discussions next week.
According to Poe, the past management of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and some individuals may be held accountable for the fiasco.
"There are many people accountable in the incident in different degrees. Remember, this (Marcos) administration just started this June but the maintenance was not conducted in the past three years," Poe said in Filipino during a press briefing at the Senate.
"So even the past administration's management of CAAP could be held liable," she said.
Poe said part of the Senate committee's report includes the recommendation to upgrade CAAP's cybersecurity.
"The actual cybersecurity of the CAAP is quite weak and outdated. So it needs to be upgraded," she said.
Asked if there was a possible sabotage, Poe said she cannot say that it was, as she noted that the equipment they were using are badly in need of repairs.
"A lot is broken but it doesn't look damaged because it was sabotaged," she said.
"We also found out that for many years now, there's nothing really been a proper maintenance done by a third party maintenance provider," Poe further said.
At least 65,000 passengers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) were affected by the technical glitch on Jan. 1, 2023 as hundreds of flights were either cancelled, delayed or diverted.
Airport officials initially claimed a power outage was the cause of the technical glitch.