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 "assessment_droneType_range_low": null,
 "assessment_droneType_subject": null,
 "assessment_operator_level": null,
 "assessment_operator_range_high": null,
 "assessment_operator_range_low": null,
 "assessment_operator_subject": null,
 "assessment_scale_version": null,
 "assessment_target_level": null,
 "assessment_target_range_high": null,
 "assessment_target_range_low": null,
 "assessment_target_subject": null,
 "attribution": "No operator or responsible organisation established by the reviewed sources.",
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 "attributionStatus": "none",
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 "category": "airport",
 "checkedAt": "2026-10-16",
 "claims": [
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "Frankfurter Rundschau / airport operations",
   "id": "clearance-suspension",
   "note": "Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification.",
   "originId": "frankfurt-operations-20200302",
   "originalTerm": "Genehmigungen",
   "originalTermTranslation": {
    "en": "permissions"
   },
   "quote": "Die Deutsche Flugsicherung erteilte keine Genehmigungen für Starts und Landungen.",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 0,
   "statement": "The local report describes a halt to take-off and landing clearances."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "Federal police citing Fraport",
   "id": "later-totals",
   "note": "Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification.",
   "originId": "frankfurt-operations-20200302",
   "quote": "57 flights were diverted and 72 flights canceled",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "Xinhua relays the later operator-derived cancelled and diverted totals."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "context",
   "axis": "drone",
   "claimant": "German federal police",
   "id": "unresolved-cause",
   "note": "Short literal passage read on the public source page; reported drone presence is not technical identification.",
   "originId": "frankfurt-police-20200302",
   "quote": "the cause of the incident has not yet been identified",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "Police said the cause had not been identified after the search."
  }
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 "corroboration": "curated",
 "country": "Germany",
 "countryCode": "DE",
 "date": "2020-03-02",
 "dateKind": "event",
 "droneStatus": "reported",
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  0,
  1
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 "droneTypes": [],
 "evidence": "Frankfurter Rundschau records a direct airport-operator response and successive police updates. Xinhua separately reports the police statement, including operator-derived totals. Police and Fraport are distinct operational origins, with shared underlying official information rather than independent technical drone identification.",
 "followUp": [],
 "id": "frankfurt-airport-drone-disruption-2020-03-02",
 "impact": "Xinhua gives local suspension windows of 11:23–13:00 and 15:10–16:04, citing federal police. A later same-day account gives 57 diverted and 72 cancelled flights. Earlier figures in the local report differ; they are not added to the later totals.",
 "impactStatus": "confirmed",
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  0,
  1
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 "lat": 50.11,
 "locationPrecision": "region",
 "lon": 8.68,
 "media": [],
 "namedLocation": null,
 "operationalEffects": [
  {
   "asOf": null,
   "claimant": "Federal police / DFS via Xinhua",
   "endKind": "restrictions-lifted",
   "id": "sourced-window-1",
   "kind": "closure_duration",
   "note": "Europe/Berlin CET+01. First distinct clearance-suspension interval; not the first drone-sighting time.",
   "originId": "frankfurt-operations-20200302",
   "quote": "Between 11:23 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.,",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "The cited source reports an airport disruption window.",
   "windowEndUtc": "2020-03-02T12:00:00+00:00",
   "windowStartUtc": "2020-03-02T10:23:00+00:00"
  },
  {
   "asOf": null,
   "claimant": "Federal police / DFS via Xinhua",
   "endKind": "restrictions-lifted",
   "id": "sourced-window-2",
   "kind": "closure_duration",
   "note": "Second distinct clearance-suspension interval. Do not display a continuous closure across the gap.",
   "originId": "frankfurt-operations-20200302",
   "quote": "between 3:10 p.m. and 4:04 p.m. local time",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "The cited source reports an airport disruption window.",
   "windowEndUtc": "2020-03-02T15:04:00+00:00",
   "windowStartUtc": "2020-03-02T14:10:00+00:00"
  }
 ],
 "outcome": [],
 "place": "Frankfurt am Main",
 "plainSummary": {},
 "publisherMedia": [],
 "reportTiming": null,
 "review": "editor",
 "revision": 2,
 "scope": "single",
 "series": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "family": "ippen-fr",
   "label": "Frankfurter Rundschau: Fraport response and dated police updates",
   "published": "2020-07-30",
   "url": "https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/flughafen-frankfurt-wegen-drohne-ohne-flugbetrieb-zr-13568620.html"
  },
  {
   "family": "xinhua",
   "label": "Xinhua: federal police statement and operator totals",
   "published": "2020-03-03",
   "url": "https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/03/c_138836918.htm"
  }
 ],
 "summary": "Reported drone sightings caused two interruptions to take-off and landing clearances at Frankfurt Airport on 2 March 2020. The reported morning and afternoon interruptions are kept together as one same-day dossier.",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2020-03-02",
   "source": 0,
   "text": "Reported drone sightings caused two interruptions to take-off and landing clearances at Frankfurt Airport on 2 March 2020. The reported morning and afternoon interruptions are kept together as one same-day dossier."
  }
 ],
 "title": "Frankfurt operations suspended twice after reported drones on 2 March 2020",
 "unknown": "The local page currently displays a July 2020 publication/version timestamp, while its body explicitly dates the event updates 2 March; the event date comes from those updates and the Xinhua dateline. The local report’s earlier description of an approximately hour-long interruption differs from the later explicit windows. Do not turn this into one continuous all-day closure or combine rolling counts. No recovered device, model, operator, collision or physical damage established.",
 "updatedAt": "2026-10-16",
 "windowBasis": null,
 "windowEnd": null,
 "windowStart": null
}
