German police deployed a bomb disposal robot at an airport overnight after a drone was found on the tarmac near a Ukrainian cargo plane, sparking alarm and forcing the diversion of numerous flights. One aircraft that had to abort its scheduled landing at Leipzig/Halle airport then collided mid-air with an unknown object nearby but later landed safely elsewhere, a government spokesman said. A drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at a German airport overnight was fitted with an "explosive device", police and prosecutors said Wednesday. AdvertisementSeries of drone sightingsAn Interior Ministry spokesman later said: "I can confirm that the drone was found at Leipzig-Halle Airport. Last year a Chinese national was convicted for passing on information about flight schedules and cargo movements at Leipzig-Halle airport to a man spying for Beijing.