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Old 10th Nov 2015, 11:56
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MrSnuggles
 
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I wrote about this in the Nordic Forum when it happened.

The people from Luftfartsverket claimed that the solar flares disturbed radar enough that it would sometimes show doubles of planes, and sometimes the planes disappeared.

The disturbance lasted about four hours plus minus. It was low intensity flares so the automated system didn't filter the erroneous data because it was calibrated for larger events.
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