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infectotoday at 2:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

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”.


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brettermeiertoday at 3:02 PM

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-verda...)

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pc86today at 2:58 PM

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.