{"id":60285,"date":"2026-08-07T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60285"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:23:37","slug":"bus-driver-kicked-explosive-drone-out-of-the-air-at-german-airport-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60285","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver kicked explosive drone out of the air at German airport, lawmaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)\u0f0b\u0f0b\u0f0b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BERLIN, Aug 7  &#8211; A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an \u200cattack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig\/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it \u200bin what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped \u200bwith professional explosives and a detonator, then crashed nearby, Seif, from the governing conservative CDU \u2060party, told journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u0f0b\u0f0b\u0f0b BERLIN, Aug 7 &#8211; A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an \u200cattack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker said on Friday. The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig\/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it \u200bin what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act. The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped \u200bwith professional explosives and a detonator, then crashed nearby, Seif, from the governing conservative CDU \u2060party, told journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60287,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60285\/revisions\/60287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}