Poland investigates sabotage after air traffic control disruption delayed flights

Poland’s internal security agency is investigating whether sabotage was behind a temporary outage in the country’s air traffic control system that disrupted operations at multiple airports on Saturday, causing widespread delays.

Poland’s air navigation authority, PANSA, said it had restored the country’s primary air traffic management system after a sudden technical failure on Saturday morning forced airspace restrictions and halted several departures from major airports, including Warsaw, Kraków and Gdańsk.

The outage was not attributed to a cyberattack but prompted scrutiny from national security services for potential signs of sabotage. Poland has been on heightened alert over suspected acts of sabotage linked to Russia.

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