newswatcher
3rd Mar 2003, 14:26
From AP(3/3):
"A passenger plane was delayed from taking off from a Swedish airport because all the air traffic controllers were at home.
The passengers were on board and the engines were revving up when the captain asked the tower at Karlstad Airport for permission to take off.
But all he got was silence because the controller who should have been there hadn't turned up for work.
"The controller who was supposed to be in the tower failed to show up because of a schedule glitch," air traffic control spokesman Ulf Axelsson said.
The Skyways-owned plane bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, sat on the tarmac for nearly 30 minutes at the airport, 190 miles west of the capital, Stockholm.
It took officials that long to find another controller to come in."
© Associated Press
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"A passenger plane was delayed from taking off from a Swedish airport because all the air traffic controllers were at home.
The passengers were on board and the engines were revving up when the captain asked the tower at Karlstad Airport for permission to take off.
But all he got was silence because the controller who should have been there hadn't turned up for work.
"The controller who was supposed to be in the tower failed to show up because of a schedule glitch," air traffic control spokesman Ulf Axelsson said.
The Skyways-owned plane bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, sat on the tarmac for nearly 30 minutes at the airport, 190 miles west of the capital, Stockholm.
It took officials that long to find another controller to come in."
© Associated Press
:= :=