Great power failure in the Netherlands. All flight operations at the … – Gazeta.pl

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Set near Amsterdam Schiphol, the fourth largest airport in Europe, went to the emergency power supply, but the flight schedule “is seriously disturbed” – has provided a spokeswoman for the airport to Twitter.

Arrival are directed to other airports in the region.

TenneT informed that failure affected a large part of the province of North Holland in the west of the country, inhabited by approx. 2.7 million people.

The operator said that the crash caused a fault in the high voltage substation, located in Diemen, near Amsterdam. After one and a half hours of electricity was restored in some parts of the region.

Throughout the country, many rail services were canceled; in the region of Amsterdam and the city itself there is no service at all, does not work or traffic lights.

The public television NOS reported that hospitals also przełączyły to spare generators.

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