In connection with interference by drones, the British police have arrested two Suspects. The air traffic had been suspended on the London Gatwick airport repeatedly. On Saturday, the flight is operating a regular run. the
The British police have two Suspects in connection with the drone of interference actions taken over the London Gatwick airport. The requests were made on Friday evening in the County of Sussex, told police in the night. Details are to follow on Saturday. It should be the perpetrators, threatens them with a harsh punishment because of dangerous interference in air transport.
On Friday evening, there had been shortly after 18 o’clock Central European time, again an intermediate case, in which a drone over the airport grounds spotted. The air traffic was interrupted again, this Time for one and a half hours.
On Saturday morning, said the airport operator, all the runways were usable, the operation will normally be continued.
The second largest airport of the British capital had only taken on Friday morning the operation again, after it had been 36 hours long due to the danger of flying drones interrupted.
40 Times have been spotted in the past two days, drones over Gatwick. In total were affected by the disturbance of more than 150 000 travellers. Hundreds of flights were.
In the days before Christmas are especially a lot of passengers on the road. According to the Guardian this Friday alone, 160 000 of them should be handled in Gatwick. The airport is located to the South of the British capital and has a capacity of 43 million passengers per year – roughly equivalent to those on the Munich airport.
Also in Germany, incidents with drones is a Problem. According to the German air navigation service