"Safety concerns"
Swiss jet cancels Beirut flight and lands in Vienna
A Swiss airline plane that was due to fly to Beirut was diverted on Friday night due to security concerns. Instead of landing in the capital of Lebanon, the plane touched down in Vienna in the early hours of the morning.
The Airbus A220-300, which had taken off from Zurich and was already over Bosnia-Herzegovina after around an hour's flight time, suddenly turned around there because the situation in the Lebanese capital had changed during the flight, as a Swiss spokeswoman told Swiss media: "Our experts have come to the conclusion that the situation in Lebanon is difficult to assess at the moment and have decided to take this step out of caution."
Plane diverted to Vienna
As can be 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. As a result, the flight for the 138 passengers and five crew members ended in Vienna for the time being.
Instead of returning to Zurich, the plane, which had taken off from Zurich at 9.50 p.m. and was supposed to touch down in Beirut at around 2.30 a.m. local time, landed in Vienna with 138 passengers and five crew members. The airline spokeswoman said that everything was being done to get the passengers back to Zurich "as quickly as possible".
Flightradar24 shows live air traffic
The Flightradar24 website specializes in real-time monitoring of global airspace and displays data on all aircraft currently in the air. The website receives the data on the aircraft from various aviation authorities, airports and, above all, via the ADB-S air traffic control system.
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