Flights wait as Greek air traffic controller sleepsTwo planes were forced to circle over a Greek island awaiting permission to land on Monday after an air traffic controller overslept and was late for work, Greece's civil aviation authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt said. The Transport Ministry launch a probe into the incident at the airport in the island of Lesbos Lesbos (lĕz`bŏs) or Lésvos (lāz`vôs), island (1991 pop. 87,151), c.630 sq mi (1,630 sq km), E Greece, in the Aegean Sea near Turkey. that delayed a domestic flight from Athens and a charter from Slovakia, the YPA YPA Yellow Pages Association (formerly National Yellow Pages Service Association) YPA Yellow Pages Advertising YPA Yugoslav People's Army YPA Yearly Plan of Action aviation agency said. The air traffic controller told his bosses that his mobile phone alarm had broken down, causing his tardiness Tardiness Dagwood comic strip character; chronically late at the office. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118] ten o’clock scholar schoolboy who habitually arrives late. [Nurs. , according to Greece's Net television. While the planes circled over the island, the airport director called one the controller's colleagues. After waiting 30 minutes, the two aircraft landed safely, YPA said. The European Commission told Greece in September to improve its oversight of airport safety to conform with EU rules or face action before the European Court of Justice European Court of Justice, judicial branch of the European Union (EU). Located in Luxembourg, it was founded in 1958 as the joint court for the three treaty organizations that were consolidated into the European Community (the predecessor of the EU) in 1967. . 
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