(29 Apr 2025)
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Lisbon – 28 April 2025
1. Various of people queuing outside airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian Cannons, 52, visitor from England: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3++
“Our flight was at 5:25pm earlier this evening, that got cancelled. We got rebooked to a10 o’clock flight via Amsterdam back to London, that got cancelled, so we’re now booked on a half 9 flight tomorrow morning to Faro and then Faro hopefully to Heathrow later tomorrow."
Reporter: "How was your day until now?"
“Pretty good actually until we got to the airport this afternoon. We didn’t know any of this until we got to the airport, travelled from the north of Portugal. We didn’t get a notifications until we got here because the internet’s down. So I can’t book a hotel, I can’t do any of that stuff."
3. Various of queues outside the airport in Lisbon
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Estefania Caquiagia, 38, visitor from Angola: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT5++
“As you can see this is a flood of people, so boring. Nobody in, nobody out. Boring, thirsty, hungry – we can’t do anything and here we are completely lost.”
5. People waiting inside the airport
6. Flight departure screens turned off
7. People waiting in the airport
STORYLINE:
An unprecedented blackout left thousands of passengers stranded in Lisbon on Monday as airport terminals closed and tourists sat outside waiting for news about their flights.
The power outage brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, leaving millions of people without phone and internet coverage and access to cash from ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.
The sudden crash of the power grid also left authorities searching for its cause.
The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center in a statement said there was no sign the outage was due to a cyber attack.
Portugal’s government said the outage appeared to stem from problems outside the country, an official told national news agency Lusa.
Before dawn, power had returned to several regions across Spain and Portugal as the nations reeled from the still-unexplained widespread blackout that had turned airports and train stations into campgrounds for stranded travelers.
It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage backed by Russia.
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