A plane from the Swiss airline Swiss that was supposed to fly to Beirut was diverted on Friday evening for safety reasons. Instead of the capital of Lebanon, the plane landed in Vienna in the early morning hours.
The Airbus A220-300 that took off from Zurich and was already over Bosnia-Herzegovina after about an hour of flying suddenly turned around because the situation in the Lebanese capital had changed during the flight, a Swiss spokeswoman told Swiss media. have come to the conclusion that the situation in Lebanon is difficult to assess at this time and have decided to take this step out of an abundance of caution.”
Machine diverted to Vienna
As seen on Flightradar24 (see screenshot below), the Airbus initially flew directly back towards Zurich, but then turned northeast over northern Italy and headed for Vienna. The reason: there was no permission to land in Zurich – because the plane would not have arrived there until around midnight. That is why the flight initially ended in Vienna for the 138 passengers and five crew members.
Instead of returning to Zurich, the plane, which had taken off from Zurich at 9:50 PM and was supposed to land in Beirut around 2:30 AM local time, landed in Vienna with 138 passengers and five crew members. Every effort is being made to get passengers “back to Zurich as quickly as possible,” the airline spokeswoman said.
Flightradar24 shows air traffic live
The Flightradar24 website specializes in real-time monitoring of global airspace and displays data from all aircraft currently in the air. The website receives data about the aircraft from various aviation authorities, airports and especially from the air traffic control system ADB-S.
Source: Krone

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