POLAND: Warsaw airport disrupted following emergency landing and hundreds of flights across country are cancelled or delayed due to heavy fog

Record ID: 333199

  • Title: POLAND: Warsaw airport disrupted following emergency landing and hundreds of flights across country are cancelled or delayed due to heavy fog
  • Date: 3rd November 2011
  • Summary: WARSAW, POLAND (NOVEMBER 2, 2011) (REUTERS) WARSAW AIRPORT VARIOUS OF GROUNDED PLANES (YES AIRWAYS) VARIOUS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER VARIOUS OF STRICKEN PLANE ON RUNWAY VARIOUS OF TRACTOR DRIVING AT SITE OF STRICKEN PLANE FRONT OF STRICKEN PLANE PASSENGERS QUEUING IN TERMINAL VARIOUS OF FLIGHT INFORMATION SCREENS VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS QUEUING AND FLIGHT INFORMATION SCREENS SHOWING ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) DELAYED PASSENGER LESZEK TYMOSZUK, SAYING: "Too slow? Everything is as it is. We didn't expect this, they didn't either. The situation at hand forces us to wait. When will we depart? I am flying to New York, time will tell. I understand, I'm calm." (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DELAYED RUSSIAN PASSENGER, SAYING : "We came here in the morning and they told us that in one hour there will be some news, after one hour there will be some information. There is no information. They say come here, we will take you to Lodz and from Lodz there will be a plane. Now we called Istanbul, Turkey, we are flying to Istanbul, the plane didn't leave (to Warsaw). They are cheating us and there is no information." (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) DELAYED PASSENGER JADWIGA MULLER, SAYING: "Everything is delayed, but I don't think there is a mess at the airport. The airport is organized very well. Of course the lines are long, because flights from yesterday had to be moved. And of course the waiting time is longer, all flights are delayed." VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS QUEUING
  • Embargoed: 18th November 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Poland, Poland
  • Country: Poland
  • Topics: Business,Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Environment,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVACC7Q7BU49K63LWCFJO4GGECN6
  • Story Text: Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed due to heavy fog in Poland on Wednesday (November 2) and the runway at Warsaw's airport was closed following an emergency landing a day earlier.
    Air traffic turmoil in Poland started on Tuesday (November 1) when a plane flying from New Jersey made an emergency landing in Poland's biggest airport after trouble opening its landing gear.
    On Wednesday, thick fog delayed takeoffs at Poland's second largest airport in the southern city of Krakow -- which operates about 100 planes daily -- and forced at least one plane to seek an alternative landing site.
    "Too slow? Everything is as it is. We didn't expect this, they didn't either. The situation at hand forces us to wait. When will we depart? I am flying to New York, time will tell. I understand, I'm calm," said one of the passengers waiting at Warsaw airport, Leszek Tymoszuk.
    "We came here in the morning and they told us that in one hour there will be some news, after one hour there will be some information. There is no information. They say come here, we will take you to Lodz and from Lodz there will be a plane. Now we called Istanbul, Turkey, we are flying to Istanbul, the plane didn't leave (to Warsaw). They are cheating us and there is no information," complained a Russian passenger.
    "Everything is delayed, but I don't think there is a mess at the airport. The airport is organized very well. Of course the lines are long, because flights from yesterday had to be moved. And of course the waiting time is longer, all flights are delayed," Jadwiga Muller, who is trying to return to her hometown Zurich, said.
    Two smaller airports in central and western parts of the country were shut or running only limited operations in the morning because of weather conditions, officials said, but were later reopened.
    In Warsaw, none of the 230 passengers aboard were hurt in Tuesday's accident, but the airport has been closed since.
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