Overview
- Police received an emergency report Tuesday from a Corendon flight from Corfu after its transponder broadcast the 7500 hijack code and radio contact failed, and the Boeing 737 was escorted to Nuremberg by Eurofighter jets before landing safely.
- On‑site checks after the escorted landing found no immediate danger and authorities issued an all‑clear, but investigators continue to probe the cause of the 7500 signal and the brief loss of radio contact.
- Corendon Airlines said the alert was likely caused by a short radio‑communication malfunction and that passengers and crew were never in danger.
- Earlier in the day three pilots separately reported seeing an unidentified object near Nuremberg between about 02:00 and 04:00 local time that police said may have been a drone, and that earlier sighting disrupted six flights and forced two inbound diversions.
- The incident illustrates standard safety procedures: a 7500 squawk normally triggers rapid military and police measures including Quick Reaction Alert fighters, airport cordons and flight diversions and those precautions can cause major operational and passenger disruption even when checks find no threat.