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Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport

42 points by Tomte 2mo ago

metalman 2mo ago
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
- danek_szy 2mo ago
  Do you have any evidence to call it a false flag?
  - rwalll 2mo ago
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  - metalman 2mo ago
    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.
infecto 2mo ago
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”.
- pc86 2mo ago
  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.
- brettermeier 2mo ago
  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-verdaechtiger-gegenstand-frachtflugzeuge-antonov,polizeieinsatz-flughafen-100.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/sachsen/news-verda...)
  - cineticdaffodil 2mo ago
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nubg 2mo ago
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ChrisArchitect 2mo ago
Did the title change OP? Work with current one less alarming: Flying object hits plane at German airport, drone also found carrying explosive
linster 2mo ago
Leipzig/Halle Airport, known for hosting Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines transport aircraft since 2022.
- ivandenysov 2mo ago
  And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022
293861 2mo ago
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marcusverus 2mo ago
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).
- mensetmanusman 2mo ago
  Censorship isn’t worth the risk. Putin is self destructing the country because censorship hides reality from their decision makers.
- officeplant 2mo ago
  >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?
  - marcusverus 2mo ago
    Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.
leros 2mo ago
I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.
megous 2mo ago
This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.
qwkt 2mo ago
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42 points by Tomte 2mo ago

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

danek_szy 2mo ago
Do you have any evidence to call it a false flag?
- rwalll 2mo ago
  [dead]
- metalman 2mo ago
  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.

infecto 2mo ago

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”.

pc86 2mo ago
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.
brettermeier 2mo ago
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-verdaechtiger-gegenstand-frachtflugzeuge-antonov,polizeieinsatz-flughafen-100.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/sachsen/news-verda...)
- cineticdaffodil 2mo ago
  [dead]

nubg 2mo ago

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ChrisArchitect 2mo ago

Did the title change OP? Work with current one less alarming: Flying object hits plane at German airport, drone also found carrying explosive

linster 2mo ago

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

ivandenysov 2mo ago
And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022

293861 2mo ago

[flagged]

marcusverus 2mo ago

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).

mensetmanusman 2mo ago
Censorship isn’t worth the risk. Putin is self destructing the country because censorship hides reality from their decision makers.
officeplant 2mo ago
>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?
- marcusverus 2mo ago
  Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.

leros 2mo ago

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

megous 2mo ago

This kind of reporting should be treated as journalistic malpractice.

qwkt 2mo ago

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