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Flight operations were temporarily suspended at Germany’s Bremen airport after a drone was spotted near the site, police said on Sunday evening.
The drone was seen at around 7:30 pm (1830 GMT), which led to take-offs and landings to be halted immediately, a police spokesman said.
Air traffic was resumed at 8:22 pm, he said.
It was initially unclear who controlled the drone.
According to local outlet buten un binnen, a flight from London had to be diverted to Hamburg due to the disruption, while a London-bound flight was unable to take off on time.
It comes after operations were suspended for about two hours at Berlin’s international airport pn Friday following a drone sighting.
The number of incidents involving drones of unknown origin is increasing in Germany and beyond.
Operations at Germany’s second-largest airport in Munich were disrupted by drone sightings at the beginning of October.
Drones are banned within a 1.5-kilometre radius of German airports to prevent interference with take-offs and landings. Sightings can force partial or full suspension of operations, and illegal flights near airports are treated as dangerous interference with civil aviation and can be severely punished.
Drones also recently caused the temporary closures of several Danish airports.
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