Munich Airport is closed twice in one day after reporting drones in the airspace

The authorities closed Munich Airport Late Friday, the second closure in less than 24 hours after a suspect Unmanned The scenes, the airport said in a statement.

Close operations are the latest after a mysterious drone pilot in the airspace of the European Union member countries.

The statement said that the airport taught flight operations on Friday night until another notice “as a precautionary measure because of the unconfirmed scenes.”

The airport said in a previous statement that air traffic control in Germany was to restrict flights at the airport after 10 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday and then stopped it completely. Seventeen trips were unable to take off, which affected nearly 3000 passengers, while 15 trips came to three other airports in Germany and one in Vienna, Austria.

Stephen Bayer, a federal police spokesman in Germany at Munich Airport, said that flights inside and outside the airport were resuming at 5 am (0300 GMT) on Friday.

The authorities were not able to immediately provide any information about who was responsible for lighting.

The accident was the latest in A series of mysterious drone scenes accidents On airports as well as other critical infrastructure sites in many European Union member states. The drones were also seen overnight in Belgium over a military base.

A drone in Oslo, the capital of Norway, a member of NATO but not part of the European Union, also affected flights there late last month.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the bridges. The European authorities have expressed their concerns about their implementation by Russia, although some experts have noticed that anyone with drones could be behind them. The Russian authorities rejected the requests to participate, including In recent drones in Denmark.

Munich Airport said in a statement early on Friday that there were “several observations of drones”, without clarification. In a later statement, he explained that “detection and defense against drones” is located in the federal police and the state police.

The German news agency DPA reported on Friday that the federal police are investigating the reported unmanned aircraft views.

Bayer, a police spokesman, said early on Friday, it was not immediately clear that the number of drones had been involved. He said that the police, airlines and “ordinary people around the airport” were among the witnesses who reported the unmanned aircraft views.

Bayer said that after the corridors were closed early on Friday, the Federal Police deployed helicopters and other means to try to track drones, but there can be no signs.

The German news agency DPA reported that hundreds of passengers spent the night in beds that were created in the stations or were transported to hotels, and blankets, drinks and snacks were distributed to them.

Alexander Dobrint, the Minister of the Interior in Germany, said that some of his European counterparts will discuss the incursions of drones, and the “drone and defense and defense” plan at a meeting this weekend in Munich.

“We are in a race between the threat of drones and the defense of drones. We want and must win this race,” said West Sarbkin, where he joined German counselor Friedrich Mirz and French President Emmanuel Macron at a ceremony to celebrate the thirty -fifth anniversary of Germany’s reunification.

In Belgium, many drones were monitored overnight on Thursday until Friday over a military base near the German border.

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The minister did not confirm the number of drones that were flying near the Elsinborn military base – which mainly works as an army training facility with the scope of launch – immediately after midnight. The Belgian public broadcaster VRT said 15 drones were monitored near the base, which has an area of ​​about 600 km (about 375 miles) from Munich.

Frankken confirmed that the nature of the flights is “suspicious and unknown.” The Ministry of Defense investigation is continuing.

“No one can carry out a drone like the airport at Munich Airport,” said Christian Hans Matthensen, Vice President of Defense Programs at Sky-Watch, a Danish maker of a fixed combat aircraft used in Ukraine.

“If you have a drone, you can always transfer it to restricted air activity and disrupt the activity. So everything from children who do not think about what they do-just deceive-to someone who does this with the goal of: criminal organizations, government actors, called it what you want.”

He said that the government actor can disrupt activities and examine responses “with minimal effort.”

Officials in Russia and the ally of the ally close to last month admitted that some drones were used as part of the Russian war in Ukraine, the European Union member and NATO Poland entered the lands of NATO Poland, which led to a stampede by the Polish allies and NATO allies in which the combat aircraft were deployed to drop them.

The drones were focused on the top of the European Union and European leaders in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week. The authorities pledged to intensify measures to reduce and thwart the threat posed by drones.

Separately, the oil tanker associated with Russia, which was seized by the authorities in France-was suspected of involvement in drones over Denmark-in the sea on Friday. The marine ship tracking site showed traffic on the ship leaving the coast of the French Atlantic Ocean, as it was arrested and appears to be binding on the Suez Canal.

There was no comprehensive research by the French Maritime Commando that boarded the ship into any drone, and there is no evidence that drones were launched from the ship, according to an official with an awareness of the investigation that spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The name of the carrier has changed several times and is now known as “Pushpa” or “Boracay”. It took its way from a Russian oil station to the Atlantic Ocean behind the coast of Denmark.

The Associated Press Loren Cook in Brussels and John Leicester in Le Beck, France, contributed to this report.