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Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport(cnn.com)
39 points by Tomte 15 hours ago | 18 comments
linster 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Leipzig/Halle Airport, known for hosting Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines transport aircraft since 2022.

ivandenysov 11 hours ago | parent [-]

And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

infecto 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does the article read poorly to anyone else?

A drone carrying an explosive device sounds like a situation where you ground all flights and figure out what’s going on but it reads pretty casually. Maybe I misread it? I would assume a drone with an explosive device would be more serious than a “disruption”.

brettermeier 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In german news it says (translated via deepl): A drone carrying an explosive device was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. A large-scale operation temporarily shut down the airport. A political motive has not been ruled out. Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) called it a “very serious security incident.”

That sounds more serious, and it seems it is.

(Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/sachsen/news-verda...)

cineticdaffodil 11 hours ago | parent [-]

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pc86 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's because it's two completely different things - drone with a potential (unconfirmed) explosive found somewhere on the airport. Sounded like maybe inside somewhere, e.g. not just flying around. Also, "something" hit another plane while it was in the air after the pilots for some reason tried to land on a closed runway.

qwkt 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Insane censorship in the comments. The flaggers (NAFO, army unit 77, etc.) are directly responsible for the fact that the AfD will win the next elections. But perhaps that is the goal.

leros 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.

megous 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.

ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did the title change OP?

Work with current one less alarming:

Flying object hits plane at German airport, drone also found carrying explosive

metalman 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

that didn't take long, and welcome to the new now everybody where anybody can hijack a news cycle with perfectly deniable/atributable false flag attacks or just go ahead with unravelling civilsation without the press releases

danek_szy 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have any evidence to call it a false flag?

rwalll 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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nubg 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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293861 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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marcusverus 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please flag. The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists. The stochastic harm caused by sharing such articles is significant, IMO, and the public interest is low (nobody is going to stop flying because of a failed attack).

officeplant 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists.

You think people haven't thought of drone attacks against airports?

mensetmanusman 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Censorship isn’t worth the risk. Putin is self destructing the country because censorship hides reality from their decision makers.