Zurich Airport: Edelweiss jet from Tromsö has to make a refueling stop in Hanover

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Edelweiss jet from Tromsö has to make a refueling stop in Hanover

An Edelweiss Airbus A320 had to land in Hanover on Wednesday. The machine could not be refueled in Tromsö.

Published: December 12, 2024, 12:21 p.m

An Edelweiss aircraft had to land in Hanover because the plane could not be refueled in Tromsö.

Screenshot: Flightradar24.com

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The answer from Edelweiss media spokesman Andreas Meier sounds rather surprising. “We had to make a planned stop to refuel the plane,” he said when asked by this editorial team. The question was why a plane from Tromsö in northern Norway landed in Hanover on Wednesday evening. Presumably it would actually have been the case that we would go directly to Zurich.

The Edelweiss plane had already taken off somewhat late. The scheduled departure would have been at 3:15 p.m., but it couldn’t leave until 5:33 p.m. After almost exactly two hours of flight, the cockpit crew initiated the descent. At this point, the machine notices itself over Kiel in northern Germany, according to data from the live tracking service Flightradar24.com show.

An Airbus A320 Edelweiss.

Photo: Edelweiss

According to Meier, the fact that the kerosene did not reach Zurich was due to the meteorological circumstances in Tromsö. After the de-icing process and due to the weather in general it was not possible to refuel. This also had to be done on the way in Hanover, where the Edelweiss plane landed at 7:56 p.m.

The journey continued at 8:45 p.m. and the A320 finally landed in Zurich at 9:36 p.m. She was scheduled to arrive at 7:10 p.m.

Martin Liebrich is deputy editor-in-chief at “Zürcher Unterländer”.More info

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