Flights cancelled at Munich airport after drone chaos
Munich Airport was forced to close temporarily overnight DRONE VIEWS.
When the airport was closed for more than two hours, dozens of flights were canceled or directed and delayed 3,000 passengers.
Disruptions are following a drone incident that affects European aviation, closing the airports in Denmark and Norway last week and increasing security concerns on the continent.
Where the drones come from is still unclear, but European authorities believe that Russia is behind. Moscow rejected these claims.
In Belgium, 15 drones flying on a military training area in Elsenborn, which was used by the EU and NATO in the early hours of Friday, were detected.
Authorities, unmanned aircraft at the base of a new drone detection system at the base of the work was identified by chance, he said. Shortly after the drones were detected later, he flew to Germany from the border.
The Ministry of Defense is investigating the incident and the origin of the drones is unknown.
Operations in Munich Airport started on Friday morning, but the delays were expected to continue.
The airport said in a statement: “When a drone is seen, the safety of travelers is the greatest priority.” The road was given to the passengers, he added.
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Bild, a German painting, reported that the drones seen in Munich Airport have a one -meter wing opening.
Firstly, Erding, a town in a town around 10 km northeast of Munich, was identified by the residents and about 2 km from Munich Airport.
Bilild said that the police were immediately sent with “Drone Defense Equipment, to prevent UAVs, but could not find them by referring to German security sources.
The first landscapes in Erding imply that unmanned aerial vehicles may be started by a land from a place to the north -east of Munich and then fly to the unseen airport on rural areas.
Responding to the reports of Belgian drone landscapes, Butenbach Mayor Daniel Franzen, a Belgian municipality in the region, said that he was not warned against any threats arising by the drones.
However, he told Belga News Agency that he was aware of a drone sent to the region to look for a lost horse.
Western leaders warned that unexplained drone flights are part of Moscow’s growing hybrid war against NATO and its allies.
Germany is investigating Russia’s participation in a drone flock an electrical power plant was spying at the hospital and military shipyard Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel. Last week, a fuel refinery and a regional parliament were also targeted.
A internal government note published by the German media claimed that the critical infrastructure was measured by drones operators.
Drone attacks are particularly destructive in German airports because of a strict prohibition on night flights designed to prevent noise disorders for neighbors.
This means that if a large number of flights are delayed during the evening, passengers may not be able to travel until the end of the flight ban the next morning.
Europe is on high alert after Russian Drone attacks on Poland And the violation of the airspace of Romania and Estonia by Moscow war jets last month.
In September, 14 European airports closed the operations due to drone attacks or suspended temporarily.
Last week, Copenhagen and Oslo AirportsThe most densely intense in the Scandinavian region, low -flying drones were temporarily closed after violating limited airports.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described the incident at the Başkent Airport as the most serious attack on the critical infrastructure of Denmark so far ”.
Two days later, unidentified drones flew to several airports used by two armies.
The authorities called it a “hybrid attack ,, but they took care not to direct his finger directly to Russia. Ms. Frederiksen claimed that Moscow was involved.
Following the Danish incident, he banned all civilian drone flights and hosted a summit of European leaders in Copenhagen and promised to support his defense plans against Russian drones.
On Thursday, Vladimir Putin joked that Moscow would not fly the drone on Denmark, although he rejected the responsibility of events.
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Inspectors are trying to determine if Russia is responsible for starting a ship of Russia’s “shadow fleet üzerinde on the start of drone flights on European airports and other infrastructure.
Boracay, an 18 -year -old tanker, left Russia on September 20 and sails the Baltic and swept around North Denmark and Germany before reaching the west coast of France.
The telegraph analysis of monitoring data puts the ship near and in the same dates near the undisclosed drone attacks.
At the beginning of this week, we boarded by French soldiers and two of the crew members were arrested on suspicion of fulfilling what Emmanuel Macron said.serious crimes”.
The feast of Benin was listed by the European Union as part of Russia’s aging shadow oil tanker fleet, which offers Moscow tens of billions of euros and financial finances up to 40 percent of war efforts.
Tanker continued his journey towards the Suez Canal, data from the sea websites that Veselinder showed on Friday morning. A source told AFP in a statement to the Chinese captain.
