Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport

37 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by Tomte
(cnn.com)

10 Comments

leros

7 minutes ago

I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.

linster

2 hours ago

Leipzig/Halle Airport, known for hosting Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines transport aircraft since 2022.

ivandenysov

2 minutes ago

And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

infecto

3 hours ago

Does the article read poorly to anyone else?

A drone carrying an explosive device sounds like a situation where you ground all flights and figure out what’s going on but it reads pretty casually. Maybe I misread it? I would assume a drone with an explosive device would be more serious than a “disruption”.

brettermeier

2 hours ago

In german news it says (translated via deepl): A drone carrying an explosive device was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. A large-scale operation temporarily shut down the airport. A political motive has not been ruled out. Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) called it a “very serious security incident.”

That sounds more serious, and it seems it is.

(Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/sachsen/news-verda...)

pc86

2 hours ago

It's because it's two completely different things - drone with a potential (unconfirmed) explosive found somewhere on the airport. Sounded like maybe inside somewhere, e.g. not just flying around. Also, "something" hit another plane while it was in the air after the pilots for some reason tried to land on a closed runway.

marcusverus

10 minutes ago

Please flag. The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists. The stochastic harm caused by sharing such articles is significant, IMO, and the public interest is low (nobody is going to stop flying because of a failed attack).

ChrisArchitect

3 hours ago

Did the title change OP?

Work with current one less alarming:

Flying object hits plane at German airport, drone also found carrying explosive

metalman

3 hours ago

that didn't take long, and welcome to the new now everybody where anybody can hijack a news cycle with perfectly deniable/atributable false flag attacks or just go ahead with unravelling civilsation without the press releases

danek_szy

18 minutes ago

Do you have any evidence to call it a false flag?