About fifty deleted flights, as many diverted in other airports. It is the balance of an evening of chaos on the skies of Copenhagen, when on the airport of the Danish capital they started to fly “3-4 large drones”, according to the police, entering and leaving the airport. Kastrup airport, the largest in Denmark, was closed around 20.30reported the local media, following the detection of some suspicious drones that flocked the airport To then be reopened around 1.
Oslo airport also closed around 00.30. Due to a new sighting of a drone, the airspace above the Oslo airport has been closed. Avinor, responsible for a large number of airports and flight tracks in Norway, announced it at 00:30, as reported by NRK. This means that the incoming planes will be diverted to the nearest airport, the Karoline Pedersen press officer told the media. Previously, it was said that a drone spotted near the airport had not influenced air traffic.
For several hours. Maximum the deployment of the police to try to bring the situation back to normal.
Some flights that should have landed in the Danish capital were diverted to other airports in the country, while long queues of passengers remained on the ground were formed inside. With the passing of the hours, about seventy flights have been diverted, also in Sweden, in Malmö, and Gothenburg. There were 50 deleted take -offs.
A police spokesman, anette Ostenfeldt, confirmed it “of three or four large drones, not from hobbies” that move inside and outside the area of the airport.
According to other sources, some helicopters have risen in flight.
The reporting, relaunched by the local media, of drones that would fly over a military area at the Akershus fortress, also arrived from Norway. For the Aftonbladet newspaper, the drones were spotted around 9 pm, discovered by the Norwegian defense: according to prime unofficial information, there were two arrests, apparently foreign citizens.
Although, they always detect the media, there are still no elements to say that the accident is connected to the drones that have caused Copenhagen airport closure.
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