- The Swiss army carried out an air police operation on Thursday evening. An army spokesman said there were sonic booms.
- The Zug canton police said on Twitter that their operations center had received several reports of two loud bangs and noticeable pressure waves.
- It was two Swiss Army fighter jets escorting a Swiss plane to Zurich Airport.
There is no danger, the Zug police said. It was an air police operation by the Swiss army, which reached supersonic speeds with their fighter jets. The army received an alarm at 6:50 p.m., the army spokesman said. Two F/A-18 fighter planes then took off.
They would have accompanied an aircraft through Swiss airspace until it landed safely at Zurich Airport. It got there before 8 p.m. When deployed, there was a double sonic boom over Lucerne. The escorted aircraft was a Swiss machine that was on its way to Zurich from Pristina in Kosovo.
The news portal “20 minutes” wrote that the investigations by the Zurich cantonal police had shown that the threat was never directed at Switzerland or Swiss, but at the foreign airport in Pristina. A bomb alarm was received at Adem Jashari International Airport, the news portal continued.