Airport disruption
Reported drone temporarily stops Cork Airport flights
Cork, Ireland20 Apr 2017 · event dateapproximate location In short
What happened: an airport disruption at Cork on 20 April 2017.
Effect: reported, not confirmed.
Was it a drone? Reported, not confirmed. Who was behind it: not established.
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Flights at Cork Airport temporarily stopped on 20 April 2017 after a reported drone sighting. The airport said services resumed. Airport police and Gardaí were investigating.
AttributionNot established
Claims and evidence
2 sources · 1 original statement
Sources that repeat the same original statement count once: a number of articles is not a number of independent confirmations.
| Claim | Original source | Assessment |
|---|
| Drone Reported drone interrupts operations. Source passage [1]“when a drone was sited flying over the air field” Passage checked word for word against the source on 17 Oct 2026. | airport-report via Irish Examiner | supports Reported account; no operator identification inferred. |
| Impact Airport says services resumed. Source passage [1]“A spokesperson for Cork Airport says that services have since resumed.” Passage checked word for word against the source on 17 Oct 2026. | airport-report via Irish Examiner | supports Reported account; no operator identification inferred. |
Source genealogy
Grouped by recorded original statement, not by publisher. Unmapped sources have unknown dependency; linked statements may also share an earlier origin. This is not an independence score.
- airport-report
- Irish Examiner:airport response [1] · Relayed statement
- Unknown dependency
- Clare FM:Cork disruption; Shannon concerns [2]
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What we know
Temporary disruption to arriving and departing flights; services resumed.
Irish Examiner reports the airport response. Clare FM independently published a next-day account of Cork delays while discussing fears for Shannon. The original sighting is not independently technically verified.
What remains unknown
No operator or final investigation outcome established. No exact duration adopted. Clare FM published on 21 April and refers to yesterday morning. Its Shannon headline concerns prospective fears, not a Shannon closure. Cork city marker only.
Operator attribution: Not established. No operator established.
How the story changed
Reported drone temporarily interrupts flights; services resume. [1]
Editorial changes
- Revision 1 · 17 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.
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Chicago
DroneLedger. “Reported drone temporarily stops Cork Airport flights.” Dossier cork-airport-drone-disruption-2017-04-20, revision 1, updated 17 Oct 2026. https://droneincidents.com/incident/cork-airport-drone-disruption-2017-04-20/v1/
APA
DroneLedger. (17 Oct 2026). Reported drone temporarily stops Cork Airport flights (Dossier cork-airport-drone-disruption-2017-04-20, revision 1). https://droneincidents.com/incident/cork-airport-drone-disruption-2017-04-20/v1/
Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23345422
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