COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -All traffic at Denmark’s biggest airport in Copenhagen has been closed after drone sightings, police said on Monday.
“(The airport) is currently closed for take-off and landing, as 2-3 large drones have been seen flying in the area. The time horizon is currently unknown,” police said in a statement posted on social media X.
Copenhagen Airport, the busiest in the Nordic region, halted operations at 8:26 p.m. (1826 GMT), according to flight tracking service FlightRadar. Around 35 flights were diverted to alternate airports, FlightRadar said on X.
“There are still unidentified drones around Copenhagen Airport,” the airport said in an X post late Monday.
“No flights can take off or land. Arriving flights have been diverted and departing flights delayed or canceled,” the post added.
An airport spokesperson said police were working to identify the drones but declined to provide further details, citing the ongoing investigation.
Last Friday, hackers targeted check-in and boarding systems provider Collins Aerospace, owned by RTX, disrupting operations at London’s Heathrow – Europe’s busiest airport – as well as Berlin and Brussels airports.
(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, Louise Rasmussen and Surbhi Misra; Additional reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Essi Lehto, Franklin Paul and Stephen Coates)
