Nato denies link to vanishing jets in Europe

[LONDON] The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) has denied reports linking it to recent incidents in which dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air traffic control radar screens in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air-traffic control radars in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia last week in separate incidents that Slovak authorities blamed on military electronic warfare exercises.

Air traffic controllers in Austria and Germany said data about the planes' position, direction, height or speed went missing on June 5 and June 10, but the outages posed no serious danger to people on the aircraft travelling at high altitude.