An incident with a drone over the Schiphol airport. Belt closed for 45 minutes

At the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam for 45 minutes the movement of the polderbaan belt after the drone reports noticed near the aircraft. The machine and its operator were not found, the sender of the public nose informed.

According to the Royal Military Gendarmerie (Koninklijke Marechaussee), around 12:10 a few crews provided air traffic controllers with information about the device about the device flying at an altitude of about 150 meters.

On one of the online broadcasts, you can hear the captain of the Transavia aircraft reports that the drone was only 50 meters from his machine.

Several search units were directed to the place, including a police helicopter, but neither the drone nor its operator was found. According to Marechaussee, it was probably one person. The spokesman emphasized that cases of suspension of movement in the runway due to the drone are “quite rare”.

At the time of closing the polderbaan, the aerial traffic was redirected to the neighboring belt of Zamanenburg. Around 13:00 normal operations resumed.

Near Schiphol, like other Dutch airports, there is a total ban on using drones due to the risk of flight safety. Since the beginning of the year, 22 cases of suspicions of drones in the airport area have been reported.

Similar incidents occurred in recent days in Denmark and Norway, where the airports were temporarily closed. The Danish government described the situation as a “attack” and “assassination” to the Warsaw airport.

From Amsterdam Patryk Kulpok (PAP)

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