Flight chaos in large parts of the country after the closure of airspace – Aftonbladet

There is chaos in air traffic in large parts of Sweden.

A datakommunikationsfel stopped for hours air traffic completely in Stockholm.

– The fault is identified and remedied, says Per Froberg at LFV – but warns against it will continue to be major delays in air traffic during the evening.

at 11 o’clock on Thursday occurred some form of communication which halted air traffic in large parts of Sweden. CAA confirms that air traffic greatly affected the central and northern Sweden. The biggest problem is the airport in Stockholm, but there are also problems in Malmo.

– We have been meeting and trying to get a picture of what happened, said press officer Per Froberg at lunchtime.

Both Landvetter airports in Linköping and Umeå were concerned, and also at Skavsta airport is all traffic stopped until 16 o’clock, according to a forecast.

“has landed visually”

the problems at other airports are knock-on effects for the closed transport of Stockholm, according to Swedavia.

– Plan, for example, Landvetter and Umeå to Stockholm to lift not because we are trying to keep the skies clean. The planes were in the air over Stockholm and was going down has been able to land visually, says Åsa Öhman who is press officer at Swedavia.

Although traffic at Skavsta airport is thus affected by the closure of airspace.

– we have no more information than that there are problems and that we are facing delays. We have received a provisional start time at 16.00 now, says Joakim Lindholm, operations manager at the airport, and points out that it is only preliminary.

Traffic completely closed

Anders Carlsson, Chief Operating Officer Bromma Tower, announced at 12 o’clock that both the traffic of Arlanda and Bromma is completely closed.

– There are no planes taking off or landing until further notice, he said then.

at 13 -30-time announced air aviation Administration that the problem is now localized and resolved – but warns against it several hours long flight ban will lead to disorder in air traffic and long delays rest of the day, at many airports.

– the will take a while before we’re up to full capacity, says Per Fröberg, press Officer at CAA.

the reason that airspace was closed due to some kind of glitch that occurred in the morning, which, among other things, have created big problems with the radar.

What is the underlying cause of Technology accident was not yet clear.

Minister: It will not happen again

Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson (S) shall convene the relevant authorities to go through what has happened, what may be behind the problem and what can be done to prevent it happening again.

– what we know is that there was an error in the CAA data communications, such as Telia deliver to the plant, and it meant that you were not allowed access to the information needed to fly lead around Bromma and Arlanda, says Anna Johansson said.

However, there is no clear picture, according to Johansson, the what caused the error.

– It is still being investigated, she said to the news agency.