Copenhagen Airport notes the police’s conclusions about drone activity and will improve its drone detection.
Copenhagen Airport had in autumn 2025 limited equipment to detect drones in the airspace above the airport.
When the airspace was closed on 22 September, it was therefore based on several visual observations of drones that, according to the witnesses, were over the airport for several hours.
This is what Copenhagen Airport’s director of communications, Lise Agerley Kürstein, says in a written comment.
The announcement comes after the Copenhagen Police have concluded on Thursday that they have not been able to prove that there was actually drone activity over the airport.
– Since the incidents in the autumn, Copenhagen Airport has accelerated an already planned strengthening of its options for drone detection, she says.
In the event of a similar incident in the future, the airport is better equipped to include “technical documentation” to detect drones, it reads further.
It is not clear whether Copenhagen Airport still believes that there were drones in the airport’s airspace on 22 September last year.
Ritzau has tried to get an in-depth comment.
On Thursday, the Copenhagen Police presented the conclusions from the investigation into the reports about drones that led to the closure of the airspace over Copenhagen Airport for four hours last autumn.
Here it was said that the police could not prove that there were drones.
– At the same time, we cannot deny that there has been drone activity, said Chief Police Inspector Søren Thomassen at a press conference in Politigården.
According to the chief police inspector, there was activity in the air around the airport, which could not immediately be explained.
Among other things, radars have registered unknown flying devices with a speed of over 100 kilometers per hour, the police said at the press conference.
After the possible drone incidents last September, a senior police inspector from Copenhagen Police said at a press conference that it was probably a “capable actor” behind drones that had been observed over the airport.
It was also called a “drone attack”.
At Thursday’s press conference, the chief police inspector was asked why the police made such a statement after the incident.
Chief Police Inspector Søren Thomassen replied that the police were not clear enough in their communication.
– We try to communicate. We were not clear enough with our reservations, he said.
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