Monday, January 12, 2015

Two Norwegian aircraft struck by lightning – Dagbladet.no

Two Norwegian aircraft struck by lightning – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): After extreme weather “Nina” struck the southern Norway Saturday and created chaos, it was earlier today notified of a new storm. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute has issued a obs forecast, which applies from Monday night to Wednesday.

weather has led to flight delays and settings on some flights. Two Norwegian aircraft, flight DY 620 and DY 616, was in the afternoon struck by lightning.

– One plane was from Stavanger to Bergen. When it came up in the air, it was struck by lightning and had to return to Stavanger. The plane was checked and everything was ok. It took off from the airport and landed 19.12 tonight, says communications consultant Daniel Kirchhoff in Norwegian Dagbladet.

– A plane bound from Oslo to Bergen was also struck by lightning, says Kirchoff.



No security threat

It must therefore land at Torp airport in Sandefjord, for a routine check.

– When everything was checked and ok, it took off and landed in Bergen tonight, says Kirchhoff.

The plane was initially having landed in Bergen at 17.15, but the land first at 20.43 on Monday evening.

Kirchoff stresses that fly occasionally being struck by lightning, but that this does not pose a safety hazard.

– It may be uncomfortable for passengers, but it poses no safety hazard. Planes landing precaution, to check that all the technical is in order, says Kirchhoff.

– Strong winds

Severe weather has also led to cancellations and delays for airline Widerøe.

– As of now, we can not land in Mosjoen and Brønnøysund. It has been that way for a few hours now, says traffic control Nils Blom Widerøe Dagbladet Monday night.

In the morning, Widerøe Flight 724 from Brønnøysund to Bodø canceled and the same goes for Widerøe Flight 730 from Mosjoen to Bodo.

The storm also caused problems at Flesland Airport in Bergen Monday night.

– It has been quite strong winds in Bergen, and there have also been bad weather in other airports. Some aircraft have been unable to land in Bergen, and have instead been directed to other airports. There are also other aircraft that has gone from Bergen, but has come back again, says Communications Cathrine Fram Holt at Flesland lufhavn Dagbladet at 22.30 o’clock Monday evening.

She said that it now seems to go smoothly and that they hope to be back on track tomorrow morning.



Light pressure gives strong winds

Meteorological Institute has issued ATTENTION forecast storm, avalanche danger and heavy rainfall in several places in the country from Monday to Wednesday.

– A low pressure located outside North Western Norway gives windy entirely from Rogaland and up to northern Norway, says duty meteorologist Eldbjørg Moxnes by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Dagbladet Monday night.

In Sogn og Fjordane will come southwesterly gale on the coast and exposed places, and strong wind at Stad. In addition notified avalanche danger.

More og Romsdal wind will periodically come up in full storm on the coast and in Trøndelag, it will increase to southeasterly gale exposed areas. In Nordland expected gusts and difficult driving conditions.

– It is stormy at Sklinna lighthouse in Nord-Trondelag. In Nordland there is little storm several places. By Ona guy in Møre og Romsdal is the storm, says Moxnes.

The wind is expected to løye during tomorrow.

– But times it may still come up in stormy weather at the outermost points on the coast, says Moxnes.



Difficult driving conditions

Extreme Weather Nina caused widespread power outages and major damage around the country. Meanwhile, the new storm delay efforts to rectify mistakes and will lead to new power outages, NTB.

It is also difficult driving conditions in the mountains, with wind, snow and blowing snow.

– This applies throughout the mountains of southern Norway. It will continue until tomorrow afternoon, said Moxnes.

Several mountain passes are closed. (For a complete list, check date traffic information from NPRA here.)

Note forecasts also includes avalanche south of Stad and in Aust-Agder, where it has come heavy accumulations within a short time.

– There is also the risk of icing on vessels in Nordland. It blows cold of the sea, saying Moxnes.

Base Stations inoperative

In all 170,000 lost power when extreme weather struck the southern Norway Saturday. Approximately 1,600 BBKs customers Monday night still without power as a result of errors in the mains, informs BKK on their websites 21.15 Monday evening.

– Customers who have not received feed back now, should plan that it will not come back again until Tuesday morning, according to BKK.

Hordaland 68 of Telenor base stations out of service, which has led to the telephone network is down in several places. In Vest-Agder were 16 base stations out of operation tidlgiere today NTB.

– During the day, Telenor and contractors in Hordaland reduced number of base stations with errors from 86 to 47. In Vest Agder remains only 8 base stations, says Director of Coverage Bjørn Amundsen Telenor in a press release at 22 o’clock Monday evening.

Although the situation in Hordaland is significantly better, there are still some municipalities that lack communications services.

– In Askøy we have a bug that seems to to be a combination of fiber faults and power failures. This affects the north side, in addition to broadband Radøy and Meland. The contractors are out and debugger as far as possible, says Amundsen

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