Power failure paralyses baggage system at Zurich Airport
Keystone-SDA
A power failure paralysed the baggage sorting system at Zurich Airport on Saturday morning.
As a result, several flights had to take off without their checked-in baggage, a spokeswoman for the airport told the Keystone-SDA news agency. There were also delays due to the disruption.
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According to the spokesperson, parts of the building in which the facility is located were without power at the start of operations. Due to the outage, baggage could neither be X-rayed nor transported in the baggage sorting system. According to the airport spokesperson, the baggage accumulated in the check-in halls.
The reasons for the power failure are currently still the subject of internal investigations. According to the spokesperson, the system was able to be put back into operation at 6 a.m.
Adapted from German by DeepL/ac
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