MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Germany\u2019s Munich Airport was temporarily closed Saturday night following reports of drones that authorities were unable to verify, federal police said.<\/p>\n
The airport, one of Germany\u2019s largest, reopened before midnight, federal police said. Air traffic was operating normally Sunday morning, the airport said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuspicious observations\u201d were reported by several people, including security officials and airport employees, federal police and the airport said. The sightings occurred around 10 p.m. local time Saturday for roughly 30 minutes and again around 11 p.m. for another half-hour.<\/p>\n
The impact on flights and passengers was minor, the airport said Sunday. Three flights were diverted \u2014 two of which were later able to land at Munich \u2014 and one departure was canceled.<\/p>\n
Federal police said they did not find any drones or suspicious people in the area.<\/p>\n
The closure is the latest after mysterious drone overflights<\/a> in the airspace of European Union member countries. Earlier this month<\/a>, Munich Airport closed twice in 24 hours following drone sightings. Thousands of passengers were affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Germany\u2019s Munich Airport was temporarily closed Saturday night following reports of drones that authorities were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7306,24492,2595,2000,299,1699,4179,1824,20036,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-514113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-airport-security","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115405978758203557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}