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Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted
Current state
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.
Evidence states
| Drone presence | reported · sources [1], [2] |
|---|---|
| Impact | confirmed · sources [1], [2] |
| Attribution | none · sources none |
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.
Claims
2 sources · 2 original statements. Sources that repeat the same statement count once.
| Claim and source passage | Original source | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| The airport stated that a drone sighting preceded suspension at 18:27. “after a confirmed drone sighting suspended operations at 18.27” [1] | Dublin Airport (relayed) | supports: Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification. |
| The airport stated flights had resumed at 18:59. “Flight operations resumed at 18.59” [1] | Dublin Airport (relayed) | supports: Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification. |
| The airline account relayed by The Journal reports three diverted flights. “three flights being diverted to Shannon and Belfast Airport” [2] | Ryanair via RTÉ / The Journal (relayed) | supports: Short literal passage checked against the publicly readable original page; shared underlying official accounts do not constitute independent technical identification. |
Earlier matching archive records
Published archive records only, not all real-world incidents or a common cause.
30 days: 0
90 days: 1
- 2023-01-24 · dublin-2023-01-24 reported
As of: 2026-10-15T23:24:51+00:00
Not established
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.
No operator or responsible organisation established by these sources. No criminal charge or conviction asserted.
Chronology
- 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]
Sources
- AeroTime: airport operational statement and airline response (2023-03-03, source family: aerotime)
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/ryanair-ceo-issues-ultimatum-after-sixth-drone-related-airport-closure - The Journal: airport statement and airline and transport-minister interviews (2023-03-03, source family: thejournal)
https://www.thejournal.ie/ryanair-boss-blasts-minister-ryan-over-dublin-airport-drone-disruption-6009319-Mar2023/
How to cite
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/
Editorial changes
- Revision 1 (2026-10-15): Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.
Evidence states: confirmed = established by the cited evidence; reported = stated by a source, not independently established; inconclusive; debunked; unknown. A claim by a party to a conflict remains a claim. Methodology: https://droneincidents.com/methodology/