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A man from Berlin is said to have given realistic instructions to pilots of airplanes and helicopters via radio and thus endangered air traffic.
The flight instructions are said to have seemed “more and more professional” over the past six months, the police said on Friday.
A police spokeswoman said that his instructions were likely to entice pilots into "dangerous flight maneuvers".
The police caught the 32-year-old man in the act on Friday night in Berlin-Köpenick and arrested him.
The distance from there to Berlin Airport is just over ten kilometers.
The man is said to have made several radio contact with passenger and transport aircraft as well as the joint helicopter of the federal police and the Berlin police.
All in all, these attempts lasted six months.
By the time he was arrested on Thursday, however, all the pilots affected had recognized the wrong radio instructions as such, the police said.
The Federal Network Agency helped track down the man in Köpenick
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According to the police, special forces from the Federal Police and the Federal Network Agency managed to trace the active radio traffic of the 32-year-old to an apartment in Berlin-Köpenick on Thursday.
Because of the urgent suspicion of dangerous interference in air traffic, the investigators searched the suspect's home.
In the end, two radios that were tuned to the appropriate frequencies were found on the man.
The devices were confiscated as evidence.
The police tweeted the message with the note: “For everyone who recently asked us about our police helicopter operations in Köpenick.
An arrest that is not an everyday occurrence. "
When selecting the radioed planes and helicopters, the suspect proceeded "arbitrarily and indiscriminately," said the police spokeswoman.
The police did not provide any information about the exact motive.