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Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted

Dublin, Ireland02 Mar 2023 · event dateapproximate location

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In the DroneLedger archive, 1 other single-event dossiers have their own approximate archive points within 50 km of this dossier’s point during 2022-12-02–2023-03-01. This counts archive points, not exact incident locations. 0 other earlier dossiers in that 90-day period have no usable own coordinates and are excluded from the point-distance count. In Europe, the archive contains 0 other Airport disruption single-event dossiers during 2023-01-31–2023-03-01, including 0 currently labelled drone-confirmed.

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dublin-2023-01-24 · Revision 3 · 2023-01-24

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Revision 1 · Current dossier · 15 Oct 2026
Drone presence: Reported · Impact: Confirmed · Attribution: Not established
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Flight operations at Dublin Airport were suspended on the evening of 2 March 2023 following a reported drone sighting. The airport and airline accounts reported three diverted flights.

Drone presenceReported[1][2]

ImpactConfirmed[1][2]

AttributionNot established

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90 days: 1

2023-01-24 · dublin-2023-01-24 reported

As of: 2026-10-15T22:49:00+00:00

Claims and evidence

2 sources · 2 original statements

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 The airport stated that a drone sighting preceded suspension at 18:27. Source passage [1] “after a confirmed drone sighting suspended operations at 18.27” Passage checked word for word against the source on 15 Oct 2026.	Dublin Airport via AeroTime	supports Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification.
Impact The airport stated flights had resumed at 18:59. Source passage [1] “Flight operations resumed at 18.59” Passage checked word for word against the source on 15 Oct 2026.	Dublin Airport via AeroTime	supports Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification.
Impact The airline account relayed by The Journal reports three diverted flights. Source passage [2] “three flights being diverted to Shannon and Belfast Airport” Passage checked word for word against the source on 15 Oct 2026.	Ryanair via RTÉ / The Journal via The Journal	supports Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification.

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Dublin Airport
- AeroTime: airport operational statement and airline response [1] · Relayed statement
Ryanair via RTÉ / The Journal
- The Journal: airport statement and airline and transport-minister interviews [2] · Relayed statement

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Drones involved

The cited sources do not name the type of drone.

What we know

The airport statement gives suspension at 18:27 and resumption at 18:59 local time, approximately half an hour. Three flights were diverted. No casualty or physical-damage claim is established here.

AeroTime and The Journal are separate editorial sources, but both reproduce the airport operational account; The Journal also relays the airline response through RTÉ interviews. This supports the disruption and reported sighting, not independent technical identification of a drone.

What remains unknown

The source dates are 3 March; the described Thursday-evening event was 2 March in Dublin, then on GMT. No airline breakdown is asserted: AeroTime calls all three diverted services Ryanair flights, but that detail is not independently established by the second cited article. No cumulative winter closure count is treated as a total for this event. Distinct from the published 24 January 2023 Dublin dossier.

Operator attribution: Not established. No operator or responsible organisation established by these sources. No criminal charge or conviction asserted.

How the story changed

02 Mar 2023
Flight operations at Dublin Airport were suspended on the evening of 2 March 2023 following a reported drone sighting. The airport and airline accounts reported three diverted flights. [1]

Original sources (2)

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

1AeroTime: airport operational statement and airline response03 Mar 2023 · source family: aerotime 2The Journal: airport statement and airline and transport-minister interviews03 Mar 2023 · source family: thejournal

Editorial changes

Revision 1 · 15 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.

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Same named site: 1

24 Jan 2023 Dublin Airport drone activity investigated

Same country: 1

24 Jan 2023 Dublin Airport drone activity investigated

Same category: 3

24 Jan 2023 Dublin Airport drone activity investigated
19 Oct 2022 Bergen Airport closes after reported drone sightings
19 Dec 2018 Gatwick flight cancellations after drone reports

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DroneLedger. “Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted.” Dossier dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02, revision 1, updated 15 Oct 2026. https://droneincidents.com/incident/dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02/v1/

APA

DroneLedger. (15 Oct 2026). Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted (Dossier dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02, revision 1). https://droneincidents.com/incident/dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02/v1/

Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23345422

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