COPENHAGEN: Copenhagen Airport, the busiest within the Nordic area, reopened early on Tuesday (Sep 23) after drone sightings halted all take-offs and landings for almost 4 hours, the airport mentioned.
Delays and a few cancelled departures will persist, and passengers ought to examine with their airways, it added.
Police mentioned on Monday that two or three giant drones had been seen flying within the space, resulting in the closure of all visitors at Denmark’s largest airport in Copenhagen.
The airport halted operations at 8.26pm (Tuesday, 2.26am, Singapore time) on Monday, in keeping with flight monitoring service FlightRadar. Round 50 flights had been diverted to alternate airports, FlightRadar mentioned on X.
Earlier, an airport spokesperson mentioned that police had been working to determine the drones however declined to offer additional particulars, citing the continued investigation.
Final Friday, hackers focused check-in and boarding methods supplier Collins Aerospace, owned by RTX, disrupting operations at London’s Heathrow – Europe’s busiest airport – in addition to Berlin and Brussels airports.
