All flights were grounded at Munich Airport on Saturday, with the disruption understood to have caused more than 100 delays.
Munich Airport’s runways were shut down for several hours today after police were scrambled to reports of a suspected drone near the site.
All flights were grounded with nothing operating on either runway on Saturday morning, according to German new reports, with the disruption understood to have caused more than 100 delays.
Federal Police said they were on site after a potentially unauthorised “flying object” was spotted.
According to a Munich Federal Police spokesman, the airport had closed after reports of a ‘drone’ in the vicinity, writes the Mirror.
Stefan Bayer said pilots “made a suspicious observation” at around 9am. He says a potentially unauthorised flying object was seen near the airport, reports German newspaper BILD.
Several police officers were spotted searching the area while passengers on board one plane were informed via an announcement before takeoff that the airport was suddenly closed, German site FOCUS reports.
The outlet said passengers were told the airport would remain shut until “at least 10am” with a helicopter drafted in to carry out a search for the drone.
At 10.05am police said their search had found nothing and the airport fully reopened, although there have been dozens of cancelled or delayed flights.
“The search by the Federal Police revealed no suspicious findings,” a spokesperson told BILD.
According to Flight Radar, which tracks live flights, the airport was back operational just after 10am.
In a post on X, it said Munich Airport is currently “our most disrupted airport with 33 cancelled flights and 124 delays so far, averaging nearly an hour”.
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