Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport

Posted by Tomte 1 day ago

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Comment by linster 1 day ago

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

Comment by ivandenysov 1 day ago

And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

Comment by infecto 1 day 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”.

Comment by brettermeier 1 day 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...)

Comment by cineticdaffodil 1 day ago

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Comment by pc86 1 day 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.

Comment by leros 1 day ago

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

Comment by megous 1 day ago

This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.

Comment by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago

Did the title change OP?

Work with current one less alarming:

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

Comment by metalman 1 day 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

Comment by danek_szy 1 day ago

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

Comment by metalman 14 hours ago

  drones bieng by there nature products of a global supply chain are essentialy unatributable stateless suicide bombers that are now bieng released with onboard targeting "ai", meaning that humans involved in staging and "releasing" them can be hires who themselves dont know the source, or target.
evidence was eliminated first, and in many cases can be considered a purely historical concept.

Comment by rwalll 1 day ago

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Comment by marcusverus 1 day 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).

Comment by officeplant 1 day ago

>The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists.

You think people haven't thought of drone attacks against airports?

Comment by mensetmanusman 1 day ago

Censorship isn’t worth the risk. Putin is self destructing the country because censorship hides reality from their decision makers.