Air traffic at Hamburg airport has resumed. However, there may still be delays, it said in a statement. Flight operations were temporarily suspended due to a threat of attack.
Flight operations at Hamburg airport, which were suspended due to the threat of an attack on an Iranian plane, have resumed. “Flight operations have resumed. There may still be flight delays,” it said on the airport’s home page.
Flight operations were completely halted at around 12:40 p.m. There were no takeoffs or landings for about an hour and a half; arriving planes were diverted to Hanover, among other places. According to a report by the dpa news agency, the reason for this was a threat of an attack on a plane coming from Tehran.
A Federal Police spokesman said that in the morning authorities received an email threatening to attack the plane en route from Tehran to Hamburg. This threat is taken very seriously. He initially did not comment on the background.