Two commercial flights that departed from Toronto, Canada, heading to Varadero on Monday did not complete their routes and returned to Pearson Airport (Yyz).
Miami, United States. – Two commercial flights that left Toronto, Canadatowards Varader Cubanet. This is AC1740 (Air Canada Rouge) and WJA2710 (Westjet), both bound for Varadero (VRA).
Bitácoras do not inform the cause of the detour, but a Canadian tourist who claims to have been on one of the flights said in A video released on Facebook That the return of the aircraft to Canada was due a “total loss of energy” and the affectation of the radar that controls flights on the island.
According to FlightTAwarethe WJA2710 flight took off Toronto at 5:16 pm (EDT) and landed again in Toronto at 9:29 pm (EDT). In the service file it is registered as “Yyz → Yyz” and with the “diverted” label (diverted).
In parallel, Flightradar24 sample That the AC1740/ROU1740 flight on Monday, operated by Air Canada Rouge with an Airbus A321, is marked as “Diverted to Yyz” in the flight table to Varadero. The program indicated out at 4:00 pm and estimated arrival at 7:30 pm, but the journey was not completed and the plane returned to Toronto.
So far, neither the airlines nor the aeronautical authorities involved (of Cuba and Canada) have confirmed the cause of the deviations. The only explanation is what Internet users have mentioned in social networks, which attribute the facts to the lack of electricity on the island.
The video traveler mentioned above said: “We are going to Cuba and the captain spoke by the intercom and said: ‘guess what: we have a big problem here; we really have to turn around and return to Toronto because they have lost all the energy in Havana, I think that in the place of the radar where they control the planes that enter and leave. They have told us that; Cuba today or what is the plan ‘”.
For its part, an Internet user identified as Andrew Sisel “Who habituates the island, according to evidence on her Facebook profile,” wrote in the group Cuba Travel Tips That, apparently, Cuba had suspended “all arrival flights due to an electricity cut in its radar station.”
“This does not specifically affect the airport, but all Cuba. It is difficult to find details, but most of the flights after 7:00 pm were diverted to their country of origin. There is still no estimated time of recovery,” he added.
