Petite sieste grecque ?

Two airplanes due to land on the Greek island of Lesbos had to circle above the Aegean sea for more than half an hour because an air traffic controller overslept.

An Olympic Airlines outbound from LGAV, and a Slovakian Airlines  unsuccessfully try to reach the control tower.

"They were calling the tower to get directions, but no one would answer," a police official, "The woman later said she overslept."

An airport's secondary control service assisted the pilots to land after they had circled for 40 minutes. The controller, who was not named, would be suspended for a few days.