At 9:25 p.m., state airport operator Swedavia announced in a statement: "The police have now informed us that the incident is over and that we are therefore planning to restart traffic."
The drone observation at Landvetter was made just before 6:00 p.m.
"I can confirm that drones have been observed at Landvetter," Björn Stavås at the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration told Aftonbladet , which first reported on the incident.
"Safety always comes first and the airspace is closed while the police investigate," Susanne Norman, chief operating officer at state airport operator Swedavia, said in a written statement to TT.
All departing flights from Landvetter were either postponed or cancelled altogether. As for arriving flights, several had to be cancelled, and several more arriving flights had to be diverted.
The police were called to the airport outside Gothenburg and, according to Göteborgs-Posten, the incident is being investigated as suspected aviation sabotage.
Aftonbladet reports that the Armed Forces were also involved.
"We support the police with what we can," said Petra Könberg, duty communicator at the Armed Forces, without specifying how.
Minister of Infrastructure Andreas Carlson (KD) said in a comment to TT:
"The government is following the information about the presence of drones at Landvetter and is in close contact with the relevant authorities."
Recently, drone sightings near airports have occurred in cities such as Brussels, Liège, Hanover, Copenhagen and Oslo.
