Airline safety concern: 13 aircrafts disappeared over the sky above Austria

It happened 10000 meter over Austria. Air traffic controllors lost a total of 13 planes that vanished off radars, some for about 25 minutes. Austria’s flight safety agents were calling for an EU probe into the “unprecedented” incidents.

This incident happened on June 5 and June 10. .

Air traffic control in neighboring regions of Germany and the Czech Republic also reported similar problems.

Neighboring countries had experienced similar problems. The daily Kurier, based in Vienna, elaborated that similar problems were experienced by flight controllers in Munich and Karlsruhe in Germany and in Prague, Czech Republic.

Officials would not release which airlines and planes were involved, but it was leaked some wee passenger planes overflying Austria in high altitude. The EU’s Eurocontrol and European Aviation Safety Agency will investigate the incidents.

Officials stated at no time were any of the planes in danger, as extra air traffic controllers were immediately called to their posts and emergency measures were brought in, which included immediately establishing voice contact with the pilots and the widening of flight corridors.

The Kurier cited an unnamed expert as saying that the problem was most likely to do with interference between the aircraft transponders and the ground.