Munich Airport was forced to completely freeze all flight operations for over an hour on Saturday morning, May 30, after pilots spotted a suspected drone operating in close proximity to active runways, Bild reported. The security alert triggered a rapid response from German federal law enforcement, completely paralyzing commercial air traffic at the major European transit hub during the busy weekend morning hours.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Pilots spark emergency runway closure The incident began shortly before 9:00 a.m. local time when incoming and departing flight crews filed urgent notices with air traffic control regarding a suspicious object in the local airspace. Federal Police spokesperson Stefan Bayer confirmed to the German news outlet Bild that the sighting was highly likely to be an unauthorized drone maneuver. “Around 9 a.m., pilots reported a suspicious sighting,” Bayer explained, noting that the threat level required an immediate and total cessation of all aviation activities across both of the airport’s main takeoff and landing runways. A massive contingent of federal and state police officers immediately deployed across the tarmac and surrounding fields to track down the source of the radar breach and locate the drone operator. To aid the ground teams, law enforcement scrambled a police helicopter to conduct high-altitude thermal sweeps of the airport’s extended approach paths. After a thorough forensic and visual sweep revealed no further airborne threats, airport authorities lifted the ground stop and fully resumed flight operations at approximately 10:05 a.m. local time.