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London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-problem dept.

London's Heathrow Airport halted departures on Tuesday after a report of a drone sighting, less than a month after a similar event crippled operations at a major U.K. airport. From a report: "We are currently responding to a drone sighting at Heathrow and are working closely with the Met Police to prevent any threat to operational safety," a spokesperson for the airport said. "As a precautionary measure, we have stopped departures while we investigate. We apologise to passengers for any inconvenience this may cause."

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  1. Re:DDOS: Drone Denial of Service by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't even need the drones, just reports of people seeing them.

    The previous incident the summary mentions? The police aren't sure there even was a drone, and so far there's been no proof that anyone was flying drones near the airport.

  2. new slogan for those stupid t-shirts by orgelspieler · · Score: 1, Informative

    Keep Calm and Ca... Holy shit! Is that a flying piece of plastic?? Shut everything down now!!!!1!!!

  3. Re:Is that all that it takes? by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm thinking they need to invest in the technology to quickly and safely shoot these out of the sky and resume operations. I'm also thinking most of them would cause less damage to a jet than a goose strike would.

    Some tests have been made with drone and aircraft collisions https://www.aerospacetestingin...
    “The bird did more apparent damage to the leading edge of the wing, but the Phantom penetrated deeper into the wing and damaged the main spar, which the bird did not do,”