Norwegian authorities have seized a drone operated by a foreigner close to Oslo’s airport, following per week of flight disruptions in Norway and Denmark attributable to drone sightings.
A person, recognized solely as being in his 50s, was discovered flying the drone in a restricted no-fly zone on Wednesday night, in line with Lisa Mari Lokke, head of prosecutions at Norway’s jap police district.
The incident was reported to police at roughly 9:00 pm (1900 GMT). “Yesterday round 9:00 pm police have been knowledgeable {that a} drone had entered the no-fly zone of Oslo airport,” Lokke instructed AFP.
When police arrived on the web site, they situated the pilot. “Once we arrived on the web site, we discovered a person in his fifties piloting the drone,” Lokke acknowledged, including that officers subsequently landed and seized the machine.
Crucially, Lokke confirmed that whereas the person was working in a forbidden space, “it didn’t have an effect on air visitors.” The person was not arrested however will likely be questioned by police; his nationality was not instantly specified.
This incident comes within the wake of a number of stories of unauthorized drone exercise which have briefly grounded flights at Scandinavian airports this week, together with in Copenhagen and Oslo.
In a single day Monday to Tuesday, air visitors at Oslo airport was suspended for about three hours after a doable drone sighting was reported. Lokke famous that lights had been seen within the air and an investigation into whether or not that was a drone continues to be underway.
Nevertheless, regardless of the timing, authorities have to this point discovered no hyperlink between the foreigner’s drone flight and the sooner, extra disruptive incidents. “At this stage, we see no connection” between these incidents, Lokke clarified.
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