In response to a report in yesterday’s papers revealing that the radars at Las Americas and Puerto Plata were not working, the Director General of Civil Aviation has told reporters that they would be fixed immediately. According to Hoy, Juan Fernandez Castillo and Leonardo Rivera, the leaders of the Dominican Air Traffic Controllers Association, held a four-hour meeting with the head of Civil Aviation. Julio Mejia, the manager of the Civil Aviation Air Transport Department said that the missing part would be bought at once. According to the air traffic controllers, the radio landing system and the radars at both airports have been out of service for several days. A press release from Civil Aviation said that the radars were only operating at 50% capacity, and were not totally out of service, and that passenger safety was guaranteed at all times. Air traffic controllers have had to return to handling aircraft manually, according to Fernandez Castillo.