‘Danger has been averted’: Berlin airport briefly halts flights after unidentified drone sightings

Flights were suspended for almost two hours at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Friday after sightings of unidentified drones, the latest in a series of similar scares across Europe, an airport spokesman told AFP. Take-offs and landings were suspended between 8:08 pm (1908 GMT) and 9:58 pm and a "whole series of flights" were diverted to other German cities during the closure, the spokesman said. Berlin’s ban on night flights was also relaxed to mitigate the impact on flight operations, he added. “We assume that the danger has been averted for the time being,” the spokesman said. Police in Brandenburg state confirmed they had received a report of a drone sighting and said a patrol car and a helicopter had been deployed. The patrol car had spotted a drone but its pilot had not been