Flights Halted After Drone Sighting Near Gothenburg Airport In Sweden
- A drone incident at Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport caused a temporary halt in flights and prompted a police investigation into potential aviation sabotage.
- Authorities reported that one or more drones were observed around the airport, leading to more than a dozen flights being rerouted or canceled.
- Drones have increasingly disrupted airport operations across Europe in recent months, with concerns raised about a possible link to hybrid warfare.
- Officials have suggested a possible connection to hybrid warfare by Russia, though Moscow has denied any involvement.
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Traffic at Gothenburg Airport in western Sweden was disrupted for several hours today by one or more unidentified drones, authorities and the airport operator said.
Traffic at the Landvetter airport in Gothenburg, in western Sweden, was interrupted for several hours on Thursday due to one or more unidentified drones, the authorities and the airport operator said.
In the past few weeks drones have been whirling around airports for a short time, most recently in Hanover. Now there was an airport in Sweden.At the airport of the Swedish city of Göteborg at least one drone has been sighted. Air traffic at Göteborg-Landvetter Airport was therefore stopped for several hours in the evening. After the police declared the incident to be over, air traffic was resumed, the airport operator Swedavia reported in the l…
The Swedish air traffic control portal, Bjorn Stavas, indicated that the traffic was interrupted after at least one non-triple aircraft had been warned shortly before the 18h locals.
Traffic to resume at Sweden's second-biggest airport after drone scare
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) -A drone incident that prompted a sabotage investigation and halted traffic at Sweden's second-largest airport ended on Thursday night with flights preparing to resume. Read full story
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