A Eurowings plane with just 2 passengers on board was forced to turn around after learning its destination airport was closed due to coronavirus

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• A Eurowings flight from Düsseldorf, Germany, to Sardinia, Italy, was forced to turn around at the last minute because the destination airport was closed due to coronavirus lockdowns in Italy. 
• The plane made it all the way to Sardinian airspace on Saturday when they were told that the airport was closed to commercial traffic. The flight was two hours one way.
• An aviation blog theorized that the mistake was made because the airport was ordered to reopen earlier this month, but that decision was immediately overruled by the local government. 
• There were only two people on the flight. The airline has rebooked their flights.
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A flight from Düsseldorf, Germany, to the Italian island of Sardinia was forced to turn around on Saturday after a two-hour flight because the destination airport was still closed due to coronavirus lockdown measures. 

Eurowings Flight 9844 made it all the way to Sardinian airspace before it was told by air traffic control that the airport was closed to commercial traffic, CNN reported.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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