Drone Sightings Disrupt Munich Airport, Halt Flights And Impact Thousands
MUNICH, October 3 (Reuters) – Germany’s Munich Airport, on the eve of a national holiday, dozens of flights to the cancellation or deflection of the critical infrastructure in Europe, increasing the fragility of the drone due to the expansion of the night after the night was reopened on Friday.
While the operations continued early on Friday morning, a Reuters witness saw that passengers checked for flight to Varna in Bulgaria, and the departure committee showed that only a few flights were canceled. According to the airport website, a flight from Bangkok was the first to go down to 5:25 (0325 GMT) of the day.
Airport, Thursday evening, a few drone views forced the air traffic control operations to suspend the operations and camp deposits, blankets and food provided for about 3,000 passengers caused the deterioration of the trip and caused the trip to deteriorate.
Airport, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Vienna and Frankfurt, such as 15 more flights to other cities were directed.
A police spokesman told Gazete Bild to the Dronlar in the evening above the airport. However, the size and species of the drones could not be determined because it was dark. Police did not immediately respond to Reuters’ comments.
The deterioration in Munich is a series that surrounds European aviation and increases broader security concerns and increases wider security concerns after airspace interventions last week after temporarily closing the airports in Danish and Norway.
The incidents responded sharply to support the leaders of the European Union leaders who supported plans at a summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday to support the defenses of the block with anti-immediately measures.
After the meeting, Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, “Europe should be able to defend itself.”
Authorities did not blame a certain actor for the drone incident, but some European authorities claimed that Russia was behind Russia’s last airspace violations.
“Russia is trying to test us. But Russia is trying to plant division and concern in our societies,” the European Commission Chief Ursula von Der Luyen said on Wednesday. He said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin joke on Thursday that the drone will no longer fly on Denmark, but Moscow is responsible for events.
After temporarily closed the airport deduction in Munich, the threat of the popular Oktoberfest and a separate discovery of explosives in a residential building in the north of the city, it was added to a tense week for the city.
On Friday, the German re -merger day, an official holiday.
(Reporting by Ayhan Uyanik in Munich and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru;
