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An air-traffic controller watches his screen at a German air-traffic control centre in Langen near Frankfurt.
Dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air-traffic control radars in
Austria,
Germany, the
Czech Republic and
Slovakia over the last two weeks in incidents that Slovak authorities blamed on military electronic warfare exercises.
Air-traffic controllers in Austria and Germany said data about the planes' position, direction, height or speed went missing on 5 and 10 June, but the outages posed no serious danger to aircraft travelling at high altitude.
Their Czech and Slovak counterparts also encountered cases of vanishing aircraft on the same days.
"The disappearance of objects on radar screens was connected with a planned military exercise which took place in various parts of Europe ... whose goal was the interruption of radio communication frequencies," the Slovak air traffic services said.
"This activity also caused the temporary disappearance of several targets on the radar display, while in the meantime the planes were in radio contact with air traffic controllers and continued in their flight normally.
"Immediately after the identification of the problem with the displays, the side organising the exercises was contacted and the exercise was stopped."
Comment: Again, we see that psychopathic leaders continue with their agendas with no consideration for civilians. It is clear that the majority of the Brazilian people are against the World Cup being held in Brazil, on which the government is wasting billions of money that could have been used to improve life in Brazil, not to mention offering help to the children living there: as of right now, poor Brazilian children are being forced into prostitution to meet the demand of fans of the World Cup. It is sad to see that protests are met with violence from the police force. There is nobody to listen, and the government ministers have the nerve to say that they will be hoping for a win in the match "to bring a feel-good factor to the country''?!