diff --git a/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests.cfg b/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests.cfg
index d610e407d..1aeb7eb49 100644
--- a/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests.cfg
+++ b/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests.cfg
@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@ GBProxy_Tests.mp_nsconfig_sgsn := {
 
 [EXECUTE]
 GBProxy_Tests.control
+GBProxy_Tests_Outage.control
diff --git a/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests_Outage.ttcn b/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests_Outage.ttcn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3433c9cba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gbproxy/GBProxy_Tests_Outage.ttcn
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+module GBProxy_Tests_Outage {
+
+/* Osmocom GBProxy test suite in TTCN-3
+ * (C) 2020-2021 Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org>
+ * (C) 2020 sysmocom - s.f.m.c. GmbH
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Author: Daniel Willmann <dwillmann@sysmocom.de>
+
+ * Released under the terms of GNU General Public License, Version 2 or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import from GBProxy_Tests all;
+import from Osmocom_Types all;
+
+/* we want to test recovery after an outage of some sort.  So we first bring
+ * up everything, wait for some time until all state is lost, and then re-start
+ * from scratch */
+control {
+	execute( TC_BVC_bringup() );
+	f_sleep(90.0);
+	execute( TC_BVC_bringup() );
+}
+
+
+}