Air transport: problems at Milan radar room, inconveniences at North West airports
It was an afternoon of passion at the airports of Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy, due to a malfunction in the data management operating system of Enav's radar room in Milan, the one that precisely manages traffic in the North West
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Flights cancelled, delayed and diverted: it was an afternoon of passion at the airports of Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy, due to a fault in the operating system of the data management system of Enav's radar room in Milan, the one that manages traffic in the North West.
From the National Flight Assistance Board, they let it be known that they immediately switched to the secondary system, which, however, due to European regulations cannot work at 100 per cent but only at 35 per cent.
This created the blockade. And although within half an hour the problem was over, the consequences were felt for a long time at Milan's airports of Linate and Malpensa, but also Orio al Serio, Turin Caselle and Genoa.
Ita also warned users on social media about the 'strong repercussions on operations'.
If departing flights were simply grounded, more problematic was the problem of arriving flights. If a Wizzair flight arriving from Tirana to Orio al Serio landed in Bologna, worse was the case for a Ryanair flight from Hamburg which, instead of landing in Italy, stopped in Memmingen, a hundred kilometres from Munich. And yet another flight from Castellon de la Playa stopped in Marseilles, France.
