18 comments

  • linster 14 hours ago ago

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

    • ivandenysov 12 hours ago ago

      And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

  • infecto 15 hours ago 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 14 hours ago 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 14 hours ago 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.

  • qwkt 11 hours ago ago

    Insane censorship in the comments. The flaggers (NAFO, army unit 77, etc.) are directly responsible for the fact that the AfD will win the next elections. But perhaps that is the goal.

  • leros 12 hours ago ago

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

  • megous 12 hours ago ago

    This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.

  • ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 12 hours ago ago

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

  • nubg 14 hours ago ago

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  • 293861 14 hours ago ago

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  • marcusverus 12 hours ago 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).

    • officeplant 10 hours ago 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?

    • mensetmanusman 11 hours ago ago

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