COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s busiest airport was shut for a number of hours on Monday night after unidentified drones have been noticed in its airspace, forcing dozens of flights to be cancelled and diverted.Copenhagen police stated that two or three giant drones had been “noticed flying within the space” of the airport round 8:30 pm native time. Airport spokeswoman Lise Agerley Kurstein confirmed the sightings and stated in an announcement, “No plane can take off or land on the airport, and consequently, a number of flights are being diverted to different airports. The police are investigating the matter, and we at the moment don’t have any timeline for reopening.”As of late Monday evening, aviation monitoring web site Flightradar24 reported greater than 50 flight diversions, whereas airport officers confirmed dozens of cancellations. Operations resumed early Tuesday, however delays have been anticipated all through the day.Copenhagen police obligation officer Anette Ostenfeldt instructed AFP that “three or 4 massive drones” have been nonetheless flying over the airport. “They’re nonetheless flying backwards and forwards, coming and going,” she stated, including that the units have been bigger than typical civilian drones. “However they’re larger than what you as a non-public particular person should buy,” she famous.Norway’s NRK broadcaster additionally reported early Tuesday that Oslo’s important airport had briefly shut after drone sightings, with a number of flights diverted there as nicely.The disruption follows a weekend of wider journey points throughout European airports, together with a cyberattack that hit check-in methods. Drone sightings have beforehand prompted chaos at main hubs — in 2018, repeated drone exercise at Gatwick Airport close to London stranded tens of hundreds of passengers and disrupted a whole bunch of flights in the course of the vacation season.