A drone with explosives was found at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany, causing the closure of both runways and the diversion of several flights. The device was defused, but authorities are still investigating the incident and looking for parts of a possible second drone.
A drone with explosives was found at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport and the device was defused, authorities said. The incident, which the country's top security official said posed a 'new quality of danger', caused the closure of both runways at the major freight hub and the diversion of several flights, including one passenger plane.
Regional police and prosecutors later said an airport employee discovered a drone near the airport's south runway with an unknown explosive device, and the object was examined by police. The German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters at the airport after interrupting his vacation to travel to the scene that the drone was carrying explosives 'is a new quality of danger'.
He described what happened as 'a hybrid attack scenario', but didn't offer more details of authorities' assessment or specify who might be responsible. The regional interior minister of Saxony state, Armin Schuster, said authorities were looking for parts of a possible second drone. Police and prosecutors said an apparent second flying object collided with a freight airplane after it aborted a landing at Leipzig/Halle because the runway was closed.
The plane flew to another German airport, Hannover, about 200 kilometers to the northwest, where officials found slight damage. The south runway was scheduled to be out of action for maintenance on Wednesday. Authorities said there was no danger to passengers or airport employees, and flights weren't affected during the day. Photos from the scene showed police technicians with an explosives-disposal robot near a Ukrainian plane.
The airport is a leading cargo hub and the planes located there include Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft. In 2024, an incendiary device ignited at a logistics centre at the airport and set fire to a freight container, part of a plot that Western security officials suspect Russian intelligence was behind. Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago
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