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© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.London's Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos
By GREGORY KATZ LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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nandakandamanda
Christmas lights over the airport?
There are some suggestions that the weather does not favor drones today, which is why some flights have resumed, even temporarily.
Extortion, Russian meddling, terrorism, a prank?
I am guessing that rather than taking out individual drones the authorities will be wanting to get down to the foot of this Christmas tree and uproot it once and for all.
Patricia Yarrow
Matt Hartwell
There was a thought it might be environmental activists, which seems strange. Maybe protesting the carbon burn on all those flights.
Would not be surprised to see the same thing happen again and/or at other U.K airports.
The response by U.K authorities is downright embarrassing.
They should have been blown out of the sky in the first couple hours.
nandakandamanda
Haha, Matt, no bullets allowed, so a chance to play with laser weaponry?
Luddite
Apparently, shooting it down was quickly discounted for a variety of reasons. The media is speculating that it's an environmental activist causing the disruption, various groups have invaded runways and blocked access to airports in the past.
extanker
I hope they're found quick and held responsible for the costs incurred by the airlines for all the delays. They can work it off at the airport cleaning toilets.
Luddite
Gatwick is open! For a few hours only. It's closed again, the drones are back.
At the same time environmentalist groups have tried to storm various BBC offices around the country, causing lockdowns. Maybe this is all connected.
Ah_so
Now closed again.
Itseems like it wasn't an amateur larking about.
A Russian test or revenge?
Luddite
Open again.
albaleo
Do you have a source for that? I don't see anything in any UK news sites?
extanker
Maybe they need to go talk to the Dutch. Borrow a couple of these guys.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/01/trained-eagle-destroys-drone-in-dutch-police-video/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a0eadf50271
inkochi
Of course this now is going to happen again, and again.
If not drones, it's laser pens, and whatever you do don't jokingly mention the 'bomb'.
The golden age of air travel disappeared in the last century.
The pic of the guy in shorts and the orange hoodie makes me think that in
there is always one.