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Gatwick Airport Closed After Drone Flights That Officials Call ‘Deliberate’
video One of the most heavily surveilled strips of one of the most heavily surveilled nations on earth was brought to a standstill and shut to air traffic for more than 24 hours at the peak of the holiday season on Thursday by a humble pair of drones. The shutdown scrambled hundreds of flights, stranded tens of thousands of passengers and reduced the British government to playing cat-and-mouse with two drones that, possibly with little more than an iPad, were repeatedly sent floating over the runway of the country’s second-largest airport in what officials called a “deliberate act” before vanishing from view. ... (full story)
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