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Drone Sightings Briefly Halt Flights at European Airports as Delhi Hit by ATC System Failure

Authorities report no confirmed interceptions of the drones.

Overview

  • Brussels Airport resumed operations about 30 minutes after an evening suspension triggered by an unidentified drone, according to air traffic service Skeyes.
  • Sweden’s Landvetter Airport near Gothenburg closed nearby airspace after a drone report, diverting flights from Munich and Frankfurt to Copenhagen and canceling one service.
  • Hannover Airport suspended flights for roughly 45 minutes on November 5 after a pilot reported a drone near the airfield, leading to reroutings and delays before normal operations resumed.
  • Investigations continue with no confirmed drone interceptions, and officials in Denmark and Germany have not ruled out possible state links, with Danish media noting a Russian naval vessel operating without a transponder near affected airports.
  • Separately in India, more than 150 departures from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International were delayed as controllers processed flight plans manually following a failure in the automated messaging system.