Germany: traffic interrupted at Nuremberg airport after possible presence of a drone

Air traffic was interrupted Tuesday, October 13 at midday at Nuremberg airport, in the south of Germany, due to an “in-flight emergency,” said the airport, whose activities had already been disrupted during the night by the discovery of at least one possible drone. “Due to an in-flight emergency, air traffic is currently interrupted,” the airport said on its homepage.

Research still ongoing

The police cited the same reason, without giving further details, and indicated that an intervention was underway. Earlier, it had announced in a press release the opening of an investigation into traffic disruptions at the same airport during the night from Monday to Tuesday.

“Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., three pilots reported, each during their landing or takeoff phase, and independently of the others, the observation of an object which could possibly have been a drone,” specified the police authority. Border police and the airport then began searching for this object, which led to the disruption. The research has not yet been completed.

The Leipzig incident in people’s minds

At the beginning of August, a drone loaded with explosives was discovered in the secure cargo operations area of Leipzig airport, near several Ukrainian cargo planes. A second machine reportedly struck a DHL cargo plane a few minutes later.