Milan radar center fault solved, after two hours of stoppage air traffic restarts in the north-west

Numerous flights were cancelled, delayed or forced to return to their departure airports after the failure of one of the four centres that manage Italian airspace

After about two hours of disruption, the first flights that had been stopped at the airports in the northwest, blocked by a fault in the radar center in Milan, have restarted . Air traffic in the area affected by the temporary suspension is therefore returning to full normality. In the meantime, numerous flights have been cancelled, delayed or forced to return to their departure airports after the fault in one of the four centers that manage Italian airspace. For about two hours in the square included between Milan, Turin, Modena and Pisa not even one plane was found in flight.

"Thanks to the timely intervention of its technical-operational staff, the data transmission and connectivity problem encountered at the Milan Area Control Center has already been resolved . Air traffic in the North-West of Italy is gradually returning to full normality", explains Enav in a note. The first planes to take off were shown by the tracking site FlightRadar24, which represents the situation of all flights in real time.

Significant delays have accumulated. At Milan Linate airport, the Ita Milan-Brindisi flight was delayed by over an hour and a half, and nearly two hours for the Aeroitalia flight to Cagliari. At Turin airport, the estimated delay was 90 minutes, with the AirFrance flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport postponed from 9:05 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.; the same delay was recorded for the Ryanair flight at 9:25 p.m. to Charleroi, which was scheduled to depart at 10:55 p.m. At Cristoforo Colombo in Genoa , the FR02910 to Palermo and the W6 02028 to Krakow remained grounded for a long time. From Colombo, all incoming flights were diverted to other airports, while departures were temporarily blocked: the planes were stopped on the runway waiting for the green light. The first flight to Genoa to be diverted was LH09430 at 20.48, coming from Munich and landing in Venice. The same fate for EN08298 and AZ07457, also arriving from Munich. W6 02027 from Krakow was instead diverted to Bologna. As for departures, the last flight to take off regularly from Genoa before the return to normal was FR00973 bound for London. Finally, at Bergamo Orio al Serio airport the delays ranged from 25 minutes to over an hour and a quarter.