Israel's Ben Gurion Airport has lost part of its advanced landing capability because required test flights were not conducted on schedule, according to reports. The specific systems affected and the timeline for restoration have not been disclosed.
According to an unverified report circulating Sunday afternoon, Ben Gurion Airport has lost part of its advanced landing capability, attributed to a failure to conduct required test flights on schedule. The report did not specify which landing system (ILS, GBAS, or others) is affected, nor the extent of the degradation. It remains unclear how this impacts current flight operations. The development follows a series of recent incidents at the airport — including an emergency landing by a U.S. aircraft due to hydraulic failure (June 27), a fuel shortage controversy, and aircraft parking congestion — but there is no established causal link between those events and this reported capability loss. The source of the report could not be independently verified.
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