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Air traffic: Again numerous disruptions caused by drones

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Again numerous obstructions caused by drones

Drones could pose a danger to air traffic. photo

© Marijan Murat/dpa

Drones repeatedly move dangerously close to civilian jets and airports. After a break during the corona pandemic, the missiles were spotted again particularly often at two airports.

Drones have again frequently affected air traffic over Germany this year. Up to and including November, German air traffic control registered 147 cases in which unmanned flying objects came close to civilian aircraft or facilities. This almost corresponds to the comparative figures from the same period last year (150) and the record year 2018 (152). During the Corona period, the number of cases temporarily decreased.

81 disabilities or 55 percent of the current cases occurred near larger airports, as the DFS reported on Monday in Langen near Frankfurt. The airports in Frankfurt and Leipzig-Halle were the most affected, with 21 cases each. Berlin follows with 14 drone sightings. In December, only a few cases were added in previous years. The peak was in 2018 with 158 cases before 2022 with 152 sightings.

When a drone is spotted, air traffic control assumes that regular air traffic will be disrupted because controllers and pilots could be distracted. The bulk of the reports come from them. In Germany, drone flights are prohibited near airport take-off and landing areas – a distance of at least 1.5 kilometers must be maintained. Under criminal law, drone flights at airports are considered a dangerous interference with air traffic and are punished with prison sentences of up to ten years.