All flights are canceled at Brest airport until Sunday evening, the control tower having been hit by lightning, the airport announced on its websiteSunday December 31. “Brest airport was very seriously affected following the lightning strike at the control tower last night [samedi] notably, despite its protections. Departing and arriving flights are canceled until midnight », according to information published on the site. Around fifteen flights were scheduled for the day, departing or arriving.
The resumption of flights Monday morning is not “not at this stage guaranteed”said the prefecture of Finistère in a press release.
“Brest Bretagne airport and air navigation services are seeking all solutions that could allow traffic to resume in complete safety and regret the inconvenience caused”can also be read on the airport’s website.
Brest airport invites “passengers to contact their airlines to find out the status of their flights”specifying that “all arrival and departure flight information is updated in real time” on its website, www.brest.aeroport.bzh.
Three Breton departments on yellow alert
Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère and Morbihan had been placed on orange alert overnight from Saturday to Sunday by Météo-France due to a strong gale from the Pointe de la Hague to the Spanish border.
These three departments are now placed on yellow alert, like a large part of the metropolitan territory.
According to the Finistère prefecture, “the windy passage occurred” during the night from Saturday to Sunday “caused occasional very strong gusts of wind, up to 129 km/h on the heights of the Monts d’Arrée and up to 134 km/h on the exposed capes. Lightning strikes were also recorded, causing three house fires to be brought under control.and therefore affecting the control tower of Brest airport.