EFEGatwick Airport in London has just announced the reopening "for a limited number of flights", more than 24 hours after being closed due to harassment of two drones that forced to close all air traffic at the second London airport, Gatwick, and already affects more than 120,000 passengers in full holiday season.
Specifically, Gatwick had planned 765 departures and landings this Friday, with 126,000 passengers. Currently is scheduled to cancel 18% of them, 140 flights .
The Police has announced that it is ready to shoot down the drones which appear intermittently on the tracks, according to informs the BBC. Even the Army has deployed at the airfield to assist in the police operation to locate the perpetrator.
The Easyjet airline has announced that one of its flights has landed although the airport remains partially closed. The airport recommended passengers to contact their airlines before coming to the air terminal and warned that delays and cancellations of flights are expected.
Police reported last night that drones were observed up to 50 times during a 24-hour period from Wednesday night, when flights had to be suspended. The British government arranged last night the lifting of some nocturnal restrictions of flights in some British airports to minimize the consequences of the incident in Gatwick.
Gatwick, located to the outskirts of London and by that pass more than 32 million people to the year , had to divert flights to other airports and, even, to cities such as Paris and Amsterdam. The Sussex Police, south of England, where Gatwick is, admitted that this has been a "deliberate" incident to alter the operational activity at the second British airport.
Thousands of people have been forced to spend the night in the airport terminal, supporting low temperatures. The chaos in which the drones have sunk into the airfield threatens thousands of family reunions for Christmas.
The last time the drones which appear every so often, were spotted, It was at 20:30 local time.
from Nettech News http://bit.ly/2EGT0VI
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