Drones of Unknown Origin Fly Over Munich Airport, Air Traffic Suspended all Night

17 flights were canceledfrom Munich Airport, affecting 3,000 passengers, and another 15 flights were diverted to other airports in the country on Thursday 2nd October 2025.

Air traffic was suspended munich Airport during the night from Thursday to Friday because of a drone flight of unknown origin1, a German police spokesperson told the’AFP, after several European countries reported aerial intrusions attributed to Russia.

According to an airport press release, 17 flights departing from Munich were canceled in the evening, affecting nearly 3,000 passengers Thursday evening.

There were also 15 flights supposed to arrive in Munich diverted to Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna and Frankfurt.

According to the airport website, flights took off again around 5:50 a.m.

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On Thursday, around 9.30pm, several people saw drones around the airport, the police spokesperson confirmed.

The Bavarian authorities launched research to identify the machines and their owners, without success.

Drones were then spotted again, this time above the airport site, driving around 10.30pm closure of the two takeoff and landing runways.

Despite the intervention of police helicopters, “no information is not available on the type and number of drones nor their origin, specifies the spokesperson.

Fourth European country affected by drone flights

This incident occurs there eve of the German National Day, on October 3, and before the last weekend of Oktoberfest, which welcomes hundreds of thousands of people every day in Munich.

The Oktoberfest in the Bavarian city had been closed for half a day wednesday after a bomb threat and a family tragedy.

Germany is on alert over the threat of drones, as several European countries have reported incursions into their airspace.

At the beginning of September, the Poland protested the presence of 19 drones in its airspace, blaming Russia. A few days later, three Russian fighters entered Estonian airspace for about twelve minutes, triggering a firm response from NATO.

On the 22nd September, a drone flyby led to the closure of Copenhagen airport, a Danish police official said the hypothesis that they may have taken off from a boat.

Of new flights over several airports and a military base took place on September 25 in Denmark.