{"id":154470,"date":"2025-09-23T03:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154470\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:33:07","slug":"drone-sightings-cause-widespread-disruption-and-delays-at-norway-and-denmark-airports-air-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154470\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone sightings cause widespread disruption and delays at Norway and Denmark airports | Air transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Airports in Norway and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/denmark\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denmark<\/a> faced hours of disruption after drone sightings caused flight delays and cancellations, with police in both countries pledging to cooperate in their investigations of the incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Copenhagen airport \u2013 the busiest in the Nordic region \u2013 reopened early on Tuesday after drone sightings halted take-offs and landings for nearly four hours, the airport said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe police have launched an intensive investigation to determine what kind of drones these are,\u201d Copenhagen police deputy assistant commissioner Jakob Hansen said. \u201cThe drones have disappeared and we have not taken any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The airport said delays and some cancelled departures would persist and passengers should check with their airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Oslo airport shut its airspace from midnight local time due to a drone observation, a spokesperson for Norwegian airport operator Avinor told Reuters, adding that all flights were diverted to the nearest airport. The airport reopened several hours later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hansen said authorities in Denmark and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/norway\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norway<\/a> would cooperate to determine whether there was a link between the two incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier, Danish police said that two or three large drones had been seen flying in the area around Copenhagen airport, the country\u2019s biggest. About 50 flights were diverted to alternate airports, according to flight-tracking website FlightRadar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An airport spokesperson said police were working to identify the drones but declined to provide further details, citing the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airports in Norway and Denmark faced hours of disruption after drone sightings caused flight delays and cancellations, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-154470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}