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Two People Arrested for Gatwick Airport Drone Incident

posted by takyon on Saturday December 22 2018, @04:00PM   
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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• Re:Hope They Got The Right Ones (Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:02PM

  by EvilSS (1456) on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:02PM (#777569)

  There are also pictures of them using a portable DJI AeroScope, which sniffs known drone RC protocols to identify the drone from its unique ID that it broadcasts and track its movements from commands sent to the drone from the controller and GPS info sent back to the controller. So if they used a drone it could track then they are toast.

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