43 Shots Fired as Widerøe Plane Passed Danish Military Zone

Forty-three shots were fired by the Danish military toward what they believed were drones in Vest-Jylland on September 28, 2025, as a Widerøe passenger flight passed overhead. The incident, along with the timing discrepancies, was formally briefed to the Danish Folketinget on Thursday.

Military Command Reverses Timeline on Borris Shooting Incident

The Danish military has acknowledged that live rounds were discharged simultaneously with a commercial aircraft crossing a restricted firing zone. Major General Peter Boysen, head of the Danish Army Command, stated during a press conference that previous information provided about the timing of the exercise was incorrect, according to hangar.no. Vi har gitt feil opplysninger om episoden i Borris, Boysen stated, according to DR.

Flight data confirms that Widerøe flight WF282—a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 operating from Bergen to Billund—traversed the Borris shooting and training area between 20:06 and 20:07 local time. Hærkommandoen verified that the 43 total shots were fired within that precise window, specifically from 20:06 to 20:08.

Danish Army Denies Firing at Passenger Aircraft

Initial statements from the Danish army maintained that all shooting occurred later in the evening and did not coincide with the airliner’s passage. Already in 2025, Flightradar24 data showed the plane passing the area around 20:06, but the military maintained at the time that the shots were fired later.

The military continues to assert that soldiers did not fire directly at the passenger aircraft. Officials maintain that rounds were directed toward perceived drones in a different trajectory, and that the service weapons employed lacked the range to reach the altitude of the passing turboprop. Vi skjøt ikke i retning av passasjeflyet, men vi har skutt på samme tidspunkt, Boysen said.

Widerøe Requests Investigation into Aerial Sightings

Pilots and passengers aboard the flight registered nothing unusual during the descent toward Billund. Despite the lack of immediate onboard alarms, Widerøe formally requested that Norwegian aviation authorities investigate the sequence of events with Danish counterparts after media inquiries brought the overlap to light in January.

Sightings of unauthorized aerial objects persisted across multiple nights near the Borris camp. Ukrainian soldiers were stationed at the facility on the night of September 24, 2025, when a low-flying drone hovered roughly 30 meters above ground and illuminated a building. Nine rounds were fired at subsequent drone sightings the following night before the larger 43-round engagement on September 28.