What the records say
- When
- 4 Aug 2026 – 5 Aug 2026
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 51.42° N, 12.24° E
- Description
- drone incidents at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany on 4–5 August 2026
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2026 Leipzig Airport drone attack
2026 drone incident in Germany
Between the last hours of 4 August 2026 and the early hours of 5 August 2026, two incidents involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) occurred at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Saxony, Germany. The first incident involved a drone carrying explosives, which was found on airport grounds near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft; this prompted the closure of the airport for the following hours.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An attempted drone attack blamed by the German government on Russia is carried out on a Ukrainian aircraft in Leipzig/Halle Airport”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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