Airport disruption
Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted
Dublin · 02 Mar 2023 · event date · approximate location
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][2]
Drone presence is reported. The consequences are established. The operator is not established.
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3 source families · a count of sources is not a verification score
AI-assisted editorial source review · Dossier updated 16 Oct 2026
What do we know now?
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.
Facts at a glance
- Drone type
- No named drone type is recorded in this dossier.
- Effects
- According to AeroTime, citing Dublin Airport, The airport stated flights had resumed at 18:59
- According to TheJournal.ie, citing Ryanair via RTÉ / The Journal, The airline account relayed by The Journal reports three diverted flights
- Who reported what
- AeroTime: Assessment of drone involvement; reported outcome
- TheJournal.ie: Assessment of drone involvement; reported outcome
- Source families
- 3 source families are recorded; republication is not independent confirmation
Further details are not known from the cited sources.
Timeline
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| 1 · Event |
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| 3 · Dossier revisions |
What remains uncertain?
- Was a drone established? A published investigation or identification could resolve this.
- Who operated it, and why? An attributed investigation finding is missing.
Check the evidence
Source passage
- Dublin Airport · “after a confirmed drone sighting suspended operations at 18.27” AeroTime
- Dublin Airport · “Flight operations resumed at 18.59” AeroTime
- Ryanair via RTÉ / The Journal · “three flights being diverted to Shannon and Belfast Airport” TheJournal.ie
Claims and evidence
3 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. [1]Source passage“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 the report 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. [1]Source passage“Flight operations resumed at 18.59” Passage checked word for word against the source on 15 Oct 2026. | Dublin Airport via AeroTime | Supports the report 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. [2]Source passage“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 the report 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
- Unknown dependency
- daa: interim2023 report, signed22September2023, printed p2 [3]
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How to read this table
Reading aid only. Switch off a source or its recorded family to inspect the remaining visible support for exact claim texts. Evidence status is not recalculated. Shared wording or a shared family does not prove independence. Only recorded links labelled “supports” count here; context and contradiction links are not support. The dossier itself is unchanged.
| Claim | Supporting sources | Visible support |
|---|---|---|
| The airport stated that a drone sighting preceded suspension at 18:27. | [1] | Support remains visible |
| The airport stated flights had resumed at 18:59. | [1] | Support remains visible |
| The airline account relayed by The Journal reports three diverted flights. | [2] | Support remains visible |
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.
Data
- No structured detail recorded
- Hit / damaged · Fell near · Intercepted (claimed) · Human consequences
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.
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]
Original sources (3)
3 source families · a count of sources is not a verification score
1AeroTime: airport operational statement and airline response03 Mar 2023 · source family: AeroTime2The Journal: airport statement and airline and transport-minister interviews03 Mar 2023 · source family: The Journal3daa: interim2023 report, signed22September2023, printed p222 Sep 2023 · source family: daaEditorial changes
- Revision 2 · 16 Oct 2026Added a sourced general counter-drone measure at this location.
- Revision 1 · 15 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.
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DroneLedger editorial team. “Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted.” Dossier dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02, revision 2, updated 16 Oct 2026. https://droneincidents.com/incident/dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02/v2/
APA
DroneLedger editorial team. (16 Oct 2026). Dublin Airport suspends flights after drone report; three flights diverted (Dossier dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02, revision 2). https://droneincidents.com/incident/dublin-airport-drone-disruption-2023-03-02/v2/
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- 16 Oct 2026
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