Airport disruption
Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted
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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.
AttributionNot established
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 |
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| 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. |
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.
- 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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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
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]
Editorial changes
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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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