A drone with explosives has been found at Germany’s Leipzig-Halle Airport, and the device has been defused, authorities say, in an incident that the country’s top security official said posed a “new quality of danger”.
Both the runways at the major freight hub were closed and several flights, including one passenger plane, were diverted after a flying object was sighted shortly before midnight on Tuesday (German time).
The second flying object collided with a freight aircraft after it aborted a landing at Leipzig-Halle because the runway was closed, police said. The plane flew to Hanover, about 200 kilometres away, where officials found slight…
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