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

Posted by msmash on Tuesday January 8, 2019 @06:40AM 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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Is that all that it takes? by OneHundredAndTen · 2019-01-08 06:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

If flying a drone is all that it takes to bring Heathrow down to its knees, the Brits are even in more trouble than we thought.
This is just stage 1: by sheramil · 2019-01-08 07:11 · Score: 5, Interesting

Stage 2 involves deploying drones that somewhat resemble pigeons.
Stage 3 is where the relevant authorities discover they can't tell the drones from the pigeons, and all air traffic is halted, permanently. The pigeons win.