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Frankfurt Leads Drone Sightings, DFS ReportsBy the end of September, DFS recorded 172 drone-related disruptions; 123 occurred in airport areas.
- At BER, drones disrupted air traffic six times in 2025; the latest incident occurred in September.
- Frankfurt led during the first nine months with 37 sightings, ahead of Cologne/Bonn (13) and Düsseldorf (10).
- The DFS overview did not identify the operators; hobby pilots were considered a likely cause in many cases.
- At Munich Airport, drone sightings temporarily halted operations on Thursday; around 3,000 passengers were affected.
We need a complete and mandatory visibility of all legal drones so that they can be quickly distinguished from illegal ones— Gerald Wissel, chairman of the European Association for Unmanned Aviation, to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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