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Airport disruption

Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures

Dubai (دبي), United Arab Emirates15 Feb 2019 · event dateapproximate location

In short

What happened: an airport disruption at Dubai on 15 February 2019.

Effect: confirmed by the sources.

Was it a drone? Reported, not confirmed. Who was behind it: not established.

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Revision 1 · Current dossier · 16 Oct 2026
Drone presence: Reported · Impact: Confirmed · Attribution: Not established
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Dubai International Airport suspended departures on 15 February 2019 after suspected drone activity. The operator gave a suspension window of 10:13–10:45 UAE local time.

Drone presenceReported[1][2]

ImpactConfirmed[1][2]

AttributionNot established

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As of: 2026-10-16T17:47:02+00:00

Claims and evidence

2 sources · 2 original statements

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Claim	Original source	Assessment
Drone The airport spokesperson attributed the suspension to suspected drone activity. Source passage [1] “due to suspected drone activity” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026.	Dubai Airports via Reuters via Reuters / Euronews	supports Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.
Impact The operator specifically confirmed a departure suspension. Source passage [2] “flight departures from Dubai International were suspended” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026.	Dubai Airports via The National via The National	supports Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.
Impact The National also reports a separate tracker indication of delay. Source passage [2] “Flightradar24 reporting a 52-minute average delay” Passage checked word for word against the source on 16 Oct 2026.	Flightradar24 via The National via The National	supports Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.

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Dubai Airports via Reuters / Dubai Airports via The National
- Reuters / Euronews: airport suspension [1] · Relayed statement
- The National: operator statement and flight tracking [2] · Relayed statement
Flightradar24 via The National
- The National: operator statement and flight tracking [2] · Relayed statement

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Drones involved

The cited sources do not name the type of drone.

What we know

Departures were suspended for 32 minutes. The National also reported flight-tracking evidence of delays and resumed traffic.

Reuters and The National relay the same airport statement about suspected drones. The National additionally reports a separate Flightradar24 observation of disruption. These are two reporting families, but not independent drone identification.

What remains unknown

Drone identification and operator remain unverified here. Reuters broadly says all flights; the explicit operator statement specifies departures, which this dossier follows. The tracker average delay is not the suspension duration. Closure times are not drone observation times.

Operator attribution: Not established. No operator established in the selected reporting.

How the story changed

15 Feb 2019
Airport departures suspended after suspected drone activity; traffic resumes that morning. [2]

Original sources (2)

2 source families · a count of sources is not a verification score

1Reuters / Euronews: airport suspension15 Feb 2019 · source family: reuters

First observed: 2026-10-16 17:17:21 UTC
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2The National: operator statement and flight tracking15 Feb 2019 · source family: the-national

First observed: 2026-10-16 17:17:22 UTC
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Revision 1 · 16 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.

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Same category: 6

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08 Jan 2019 Heathrow departures briefly suspended after drone report
19 Dec 2018 Gatwick flight cancellations after drone reports
06 Mar 2018 Auckland Airport suspends operations after pilot drone report
12 Oct 2017 Québec aircraft damage: Canadian drone-collision finding disputed by NTSB
31 Jul 2015 Pilot reports suspected drone during arrival at JFK

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DroneLedger. (16 Oct 2026). Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures (Dossier dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15, revision 1). https://droneincidents.com/incident/dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15/v1/

Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23345422

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