Swiss airspace “is closed until further notice” due to a computer failure, the Skyguide air traffic control service announced in a press release on Wednesday June 15.
"A technical breakdown occurred at Skyguide, the Swiss air traffic control service, in the early hours of the morning, which is why Swiss airspace was closed to traffic for safety reasons," the statement said. from Skyguide.
A few minutes earlier a tweet from Geneva airport indicated that the airports of Geneva and Zürich, among the main ones in Switzerland, were paralyzed due to a computer failure at the air traffic controller Skyguide.
The tweet specified that take-offs and landings were suspended at Geneva Cointrin airport.
With AFP
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