Munich airport halts flights after drone sightings; passengers stranded | Travel News

Nearly 3,000 passengers are stranded. The sightings follow similar incidents in Denmark and Norway last week.

Germany’s Munich airport has been forced to suspend operations after drone sightings led to the cancellation of 17 flights, the diversion of 15 others, and the stranding of some 3,000 passengers.

The airport said early on Friday that drone sightings were first reported by German air traffic control at 10:18pm local time [20:18 GMT] on Thursday, leading initially to a restriction on…