Germany's Nuremberg airport closes due to aviation emergency
Police said the plane landed safely and checks found no danger after a reported air emergency triggered a search and airport shutdown.
- On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Corendon Airlines flight XR456 landed safely at Nuremberg Airport after transmitting an emergency code, with German authorities scrambling Eurofighter jets to escort the aircraft.
- Earlier that morning, three pilots independently reported seeing a potential drone near the airfield, prompting authorities to deploy patrol vehicles and a police helicopter, though no evidence was found.
- Nuremberg Airport officials suspended operations during the police investigation, causing six flights to be delayed, while two arriving aircraft diverted to Cologne and Prague before continuing.
- Police confirmed that on-site inspections established no danger, and officers later added, "In the meantime, the aircraft has landed safely in Nuremberg. Investigations into the cause are currently underway."
- German airports have faced previous drone-related security alerts, including a May incident in Munich that forced more than 20 aircraft to divert, though authorities have not yet confirmed any connection between the incidents.
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Police have lifted security measures at Nuremberg Airport after a suspected air emergency was reported on Tuesday involving a passenger plane arriving from Corfu.
Police temporarily closed Nuremberg Airport in Germany on Tuesday due to a suspected air emergency. German website Focus reported that the disruption could be related to a sighting of an object resembling a drone. Police later said the alert had been lifted. The possible drone sightings had already disrupted traffic at the airport in the early hours of the morning.
The Nürnberg airport, the second largest in Bavaria as a volume of traffic, suspended all flight operations on Tuesday following a security alert triggered in the German airspace. Eurofighter fighter aircraft were mobilised to escort the aircraft heading from Corfu, Greece to Germany, due to a "situation ...
The reason was a report of an emergency on a passenger plane arriving from the Greek island of Corfu.
The airport in the German city of Nurnberg was temporarily closed on Tuesday due to "an air emergency suspicion," a spokesman for the municipal police said.
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