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Two People Arrested for Gatwick Airport Drone Incident

posted by takyon on Saturday December 22 2018, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-catch-'em-all dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Two arrested after drones delay flights and force cancellations at Gatwick Airport

UK police say they have made two arrests in connection with criminal drone activity at Gatwick Airport, and urged the public and passengers around the airport to remain vigilant. Britain's second-largest airport reopened on Friday after a mystery saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for more than 100,000 Christmas travellers by using drones to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army. [...] The defence ministry refused to comment on what technology was deployed, but drone experts said airports needed to deploy specialist radar reinforced by thermal imaging technology to detect such unmanned flying vehicles.

See also: Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption

A 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman, from Crawley, were arrested in the town at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.

Previously: Army Called in Amid UK Drone Chaos (Updated)

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday December 22 2018, @04:59PM (3 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday December 22 2018, @04:59PM (#777568)

    I'm inclined to think that blame might always end up being pinned on somebody

    I don't think that's likely. I would imagine there would be plenty of supporting evidence, not least neighbours and others seeing the drones going up and down when they were having batteries changed of re-charged. By the end there must have been hundreds of people watching the drones' paths, both police and bystanders, and with eyeballs, binoculars and radar.

    The Gatwick area (and South East England generally) is a very crowded place these days, there are very few locations where you could operate drones from without being noticed, especially if you were being looked for. The only surprise is that it took so long to nail them.

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:29PM (#777580) Journal

    They don't have silent black helicopter drones scaled down yet?

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by zocalo on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:39PM

      by zocalo (302) on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:39PM (#777626)
      Yes, but I heard that they are still having problems getting the tinfoil penetrating scanners small enough to fit.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @05:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @05:12PM (#777862)

    I'm inclined to think that blame might always end up being pinned on somebody

    I don't think that's likely. I would imagine there would be plenty of supporting evidence, not least neighbours and others seeing the drones going up and down when they were having batteries changed of re-charged.

    Heh, just goes to show....old news by now

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615 [bbc.co.uk]