Nuremberg airport closed after Corendon flight reports suspected emergency, flights
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Corendon Airlines Europe flight XR456, a Boeing 737‑800 registered 9H‑CXD, landed safely in Nuremberg at 12:16 on 13 October, after police closed the airport at midday when the flight’s transponder reported a suspected in‑flight emergency.
Two Eurofighter jets from Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 escorted the aircraft in German airspace, and the airport closure disrupted the flight plan, causing arriving flights to be diverted to Frankfurt, Memmingen, Stuttgart and Munich; Wizz Air Malta cancelled its Cluj‑Napoca flight W43369, KLM cancelled its Amsterdam flight KL1843, and Corendon flights from Palma de Mallorca and Ryanair flights from Girona and Alicante were delayed. Airport police, the airport and Deutsche Flugsicherung launched a search for a suspected drone, but no drone was found.