- Denmark’s Copenhagen Airport opens again after almost four hours.
- Norway’s Oslo Airport opens again after almost three hours.
- Examination was launched to determine what species of drones.
COPENHAGEN: Copenhagen Airport, the busiest in the Nordic region, said it opened early on Tuesday, after drone sightings stopped all the starts and landings for almost four hours, with Norway’s Oslo Airport also opened again after it closed its airspace over a drone.
“Police have launched an intensive investigation to determine what kind of drones these are,” Copenhagen -Deputy Assistant Commissioner Jakob Hansen told journalists. “The drones have disappeared and we haven’t taken any of them,” he added.
Hansen said that the authorities in Denmark and Norway would cooperate to determine if there was a connection between the two incidents.
Airspace in Oslo Airport in Norway was reopened at. 3:22 (0122 GMT), a spokesman for Norwegian airport operator Avinor said in a statement.
It had been closed since midnight (2200 GMT) due to a drone observation, with all flights redirected to the nearest airport.
The Danish police said earlier on Monday that two or three large drones had been seen flying near Copenhagen Airport and closed it for all traffic.
The airport stopped the operations at. 20.26 (1826 GMT) Monday according to Flight Tracking Service Flight Tradar. About 50 flights were redirected to alternative airports, said Flight Tradar at X.
After it opened, Copenhagen Airport said at X that delays and some canceled departures would persist and encouraged passengers to check with their airlines.
The airport’s shutdowns came after a series of disturbances at European airports in recent days.
A cyberattack last Friday knocked out check-in and boarding systems provided by Collins Aerospace, a device of RTX affecting the operations of London’s Heathrow and Berlin and Brussels Airports. During the weekend and into Monday, the fall continued with Snarl traveling across the region.
In 2018, drone observations stranded over the runway in Gatwick near London tens of thousands of passengers and disturbed hundreds of flights at the height of the holiday season.
