The presence of a drone at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas airport has forced the diversion of a total of 21 flights to other airfields this Wednesday afternoon, as confirmed by Aena sources to ‘ABC’. Although the facilities have not been closed at any time, the planes that were supposed to take off have accumulated delays.
The air traffic controllers reported at 7:14 p.m., through their social network account the security procedure of the State Security Corps and Forces.
This procedure was in effect for about an hour and forced certain planes to wait to land or take off, while More than twenty have been diverted to other airports.
At around 9:00 p.m., activity had resumed normally, although with certain delays, according to Aena. The controllers have already announced that, once it resumes operation, it would take a while to recover the delays accumulated.
The airport will take time to recover total normality, since this should be done in a phased manner so as not to congest the airspace.
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