Warsaw airport incident causes brief suspension of flights

2024-09-02 20:05 update: 2024-09-04, 14:21
Photo: PAP/Dariusz Radzimierski
Photo: PAP/Dariusz Radzimierski
An incident involving a light aircraft occurred during a training operation at Warsaw Chopin Airport on Monday, causing a short suspension of flights, the spokeswoman for the airport has told PAP.

"Today at 3.14pm at Warsaw Chopin Airport, an incident occurred during a so-called 'touch and go operation' (a training operation during which a plane lands and immediately takes off without leaving the runway) by a light civil aircraft," Anna Dermont said. 

She confirmed that airport emergency services were on site and the two people involved in the incident had not been injured.

Dermont added that due to the incident operations at the airport were temporarily brought to a halt.

Warsaw Chopin Airport is the largest airport in Poland. In 2023, it served 18.5 million passengers, and in the whole of 2024 - according to forecasts - it will handle 20.5 million passengers, about 10 percent more than a year earlier. For comparison, in 2015, the airport handled approximately 10 million passengers throughout the whole year. (PAP)
mf/jd

All materials (especially agency messages, photographs, graphics and film material) placed on this Portal are protected under the Law on copyright and related rights of February 4, 1994 and the Law on the protection of databanks of July 27, 2001. The said materials may be used only under appropriate license agreements. Any usage of said materials by Portal users without a valid license agreement is forbidden with the exclusion of legally allowed exceptions (especially permitted personal usage).

Recent news