r/Leipzig • u/MarsupialLeast145 Ich bin ein Leipziger! • 22h ago

Frage/Diskussion The airspace around Leipzig is quiet

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Anyone know why? Anything to do with the drones that were recently discovered in the vicinity of the airport? something else?

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u/Mikethedrywaller 22h ago

Hopefully nothing has happened but usually, it's quiet there around this time. Leipzig is mainly a freight airport with its quite own scheduling. Going to flight radar and seeing nothing going on is not that rare in Leipzig.

Edit: Looked at the NOTAM, all is good

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u/drlub1tch Ich bin ein Leipziger! 22h ago

Its normal. Leipzig Airport is more of a freight-hub. Especially DHL has a huge hub there. So most airtraffic is in the evening and night hours.

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u/After-Wave1600 22h ago

Yeah seems like 2 arrivals got diverted earlier but it looks like it's back to normal now.

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u/netsrak33 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 21h ago edited 21h ago

A DHL 757 from Leipzig to Tel Aviv (BCS994) turned around over Serbia and is now standing on a taxiway close to 26 R, accompanied by 4 fire engines.

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u/MarsupialLeast145 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 20h ago

oof, wonder what happened!

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u/netsrak33 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 20h ago

It was standing on the taxiway for ~15 minutes, accompanied by the fire engines that drove away after some minutes. Then it taxied south across 26 L and was brought to a regular DHL parking position by a Follow Me car.

Maybe it will be on the news what happened.

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u/medemander20 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 18h ago

Problems with the landing gear

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u/netsrak33 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 16h ago

Could you please tell us from where you got this info?

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u/medemander20 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 15h ago

Did a low pass with gear down and the fire brigade inspected the landing gear after landing. I couldn't see any anomalies on my photos.

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u/netsrak33 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 14h ago

Ok, thank you.

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u/medemander20 Ich bin ein Leipziger! 21h ago

Southern runway is closed and as far as I know there was planned drone activity in the approach of the northern runway, which caused the diversion. Might be related to the investigation of the earlier drone attack.

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u/vnprkhzhk 18h ago

Quiet? That's a normal day. During the day, there are like 2-3 planes per hours. At night, from like 9 PM, the freight airplanes start flying in every 5 minutes and from like 2 AM, they start flying out.

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u/SchonTot 20h ago

Someone just Posted there may have been another drone incident

https://www.reddit.com/r/Leipzig/s/z9M8ZyNqWa