Flights Were Temporarily Suspended at Vilnius Airport

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Saturday evening at 8:45 p.m., air service at Vilnius Airport was temporarily suspended and resumed at 9:50 p.m.

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This was reported by Delfi. According to the representative of the Minister of Transport of Lithuania Lukas Pashkiavičius, restrictions on flights were imposed at 20:45. At first, the services predicted that traffic would resume only three hours later — at 11:45 p.m., but the situation was normalized faster. The airspace over the airport was opened already at 21:50. Pashkevicius stressed that the decisions were made to ensure the safety of fligh…

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Once again, the airport's operations were disrupted by balloons, presumably carrying contraband.

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In Lithuania on the evening of Saturday, November 8, the operation of the airport of the capital Vilnius was suspended due to a threat related to the weather zone.

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The head of the National Crisis Management Center (NKVC), Vilmantas Vitkauskas, says that on Saturday evening, Vilnius Airport had to be temporarily suspended because one of the smuggled balloons launched by Belarus ended up in a very dangerous area.