Norway’s second largest airport closed for two hours after a drone alert in a tense safety context

The airport of Bergen Flesland closed for 2 hours after a number of observations of drone flying within the space. In a tense safety context given Russia-Ukraine battle, Norwegian authorities are looking out.

Bergen Flesland Airport quickly closed on October 19 after police obtained a number of reviews a couple of drone flying within the space.

Bergen Airport closed from 6.30 within the morning for roughly two hours, canceling a few dozen departures and delaying extra flights. It adopted a number of reviews of doable drone observations within the space from 4.15 am, together with one positive remark based on the operations supervisor of the airport.

Bergen Flesland Airport, situated within the southwest of Norway is the second largest one of many nation, the place 135 flights had been presupposed to depart Tuesday to Norwegian and European cities.

Police went to Flesland, Bjorøy island and Haakonsvern, the army base of the Norwegian navy, to examine on the state of affairs.

The identical morning, pilots and the management tower on the airport of Førde, a really small airport roughly 100 km north of Bergen, additionally reported a drone was within the no-fly zone of 5 kilometers (3 miles) set round any airport in Norway.

If it was nonetheless unclear whether or not all observations at Bergen had been really of drones, police requested the meteorological institute whether or not a few of them may have been from a climate phenomenon, the problem is taken very critically by Norwegian authorities within the context of the struggle between Russia and Ukraine.

On October 16, Stavanger and Haugesund airports, that are additionally within the southwest of the nation lots of of miles away from the Russian land border with Norway, had already been quickly closed after doable drone observations.

On account of the struggle in Ukraine, Norway closed its airspace to Russian firms and Russians. And as a consequence, Russians are additionally prohibited from flying drones in Norway.

A number of Russians have been arrested in current days for issues associated to drones and unlawful pictures.

4 Russians had been arrested on October 11 after they had been suspected of getting taken unlawful pictures of some places. The identical day, a Russian man was arrested at a border examine close to the Norwegian-Russian border at Storskog in possession of two drones and digital storage gadgets. He admitted having flown his drones in Norway. He was additionally in possession of two Russian and one Israeli passports. The identical week, one other Russian was arrested at Tromsø within the north of the nation after an worker on the airport noticed the person taking photos within the space. He was in possession of a drone, which the police seized.

Lederne, a Norwegian group for managers and executives with 17,000 members, referred to as for a brief nationwide ban on drone flights, calling drone visitors “an pointless further burden” given the present safety threats, which additionally finally have an effect on enterprise journey.

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