By Renee Maltezou, Michele Kambas and Lefteris Papadimas, Reuters
Photo: NICOLAS ECONOMOU / AFP
Air traffic controllers describe moment communications went down
Officials don't know cause of outage - nor how it was fixed
Incident reignites debate over ageing air traffic control system
For a few tense hours on Sunday (local time) morning, Greek skies turned into a communications black hole. Air traffic controllers for Athens airport were guiding planes toward the runway when the usual radio chatter suddenly vanished - replaced by a piercing whistle.
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