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Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport

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

And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

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”.

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...)

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.

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

This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.

Did the title change OP?

Work with current one less alarming:

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

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

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

  drones bieng by there nature products of a global supply chain are essentialy unatributable stateless suicide bombers that are now bieng released with onboard targeting "ai", meaning that humans involved in staging and "releasing" them can be hires who themselves dont know the source, or target.

evidence was eliminated first, and in many cases can be considered a purely historical concept.

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).

>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?

Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.

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

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