Denmark's Copenhagen airport shut: Unidentified drones sighted; flights diverted

Denmark's Copenhagen airdrome was closed connected Monday aft unidentified drones were observed nearby, forcing astir 15 flights to beryllium diverted, constabulary and airdrome officials told AFP. “The airspace implicit Copenhagen airdrome has been closed since 8:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) owed to 2 to 3 unidentified drones. No craft tin instrumentality disconnected oregon land,” airdrome spokeswoman Lise Agerley Kurstein said. She added that astir 15 flights had been diverted to different airports. Copenhagen constabulary said “three oregon 4 large drones” had been seen flying implicit the airport. “They are inactive flying backmost and forth, coming and going,” work serviceman Anette Ostenfeldt told AFP astatine 2045 GMT, adding that constabulary were astatine the airdrome investigating. Ostenfeldt could not corroborate whether the drones were subject oregon civilian devices. “But they are bigger than what you arsenic a backstage idiosyncratic tin buy,” she said. Airport officials said the airdrome would stay closed until the concern was resolved. “We presently person nary timeline for reopening,” Kurstein said.