Croatia thanks neighbors after "most terrifying incident"

Croatia's air traffic control authority has thanked Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services (SMATSA) for its "quick and professional reaction on July 30."

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 05.08.2014.

16:21

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Croatia thanks neighbors after "most terrifying incident"

"At 1.22 p.m. that day, the most terrifying incident in the short history of Croatian air traffic control took place," the authority said in a letter to Serbian colleagues.

A major power outage resulted in a loss of radar image and frequencies on nearly all positions, on a day when Croatia had 119 overflights and eight open sectors.

"The 35 minutes before we - or rather, you, our dear friends - cleared our sky, were what most flight control officers described as the most shocking and the most terrifying minutes of their careers, and most of them have been in the profession for more than 15 years. A big thank you to all of you", the letter said.

The severe weather conditions caused a complete failure of flight control systems in Croatia and 45 percent of the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, prompting SMATSA to take over, SMATSA Director Radojica Rovčanin said.

"Absolutely all airplanes in Croatian airspace were left without ground navigation, so other providers came to their rescue. We assigned extra people to shifts, so a large number of people went back to work," Rovcanin said.

"It was a day for feats. All that we had trained for years for an unprecedented emergency situation like this paid off in practice," the SMATSA director said.

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