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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:48PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @05:48PM (#777592)

    Either that, or they're trying to get us used to airports being shut down in preparation for martial law.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:37PM (2 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:37PM (#777625)
    While we're wearing the tinfoil, a more plausible "dry run" would be to see what the reaction might be from passengers left stranded and with broken holiday plans in the event of that any UK-based airlines suddenly cannot fly as a result of a hard Brexit. The UK is supposed to be stepping up its "No Deal" planning, right, and barring any postponement we're going to exit just when the summer holiday season starts to ramp up. Yes, there are supposedly contingency plans being put in place but, sooner or later, those stop-gaps are going to come to an end and you just *know* that someone isn't going to be ready in time.
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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:08PM (#777689)

      why? well-timed snow storms already fuck with air travel already.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:09PM (#777690)

      While we're wearing the tinfoil, a more plausible "dry run" would be to see what the reaction might be from passengers left stranded and with broken holiday plans

      I hear they sold out of every copy of Drone Aficionado in the airport gift shops. Mission accomplished!