Police identify 'persons of interest' after drone disruption at Gatwick
Source: The Guardian
olice have identified “persons of interest” in the hunt for the drone operator, or operators, who caused Gatwick to close for 36 hours, as services at the airport resumed on Friday.
About 150 out of 837 scheduled flights were cancelled after the runway opened just before 6am. The airport said “additional mitigating measures” put in place by the police and military were allowing planes to fly again. However, with planes and crews out of place many services remained cancelled or delayed.
More than 126,000 passengers were due to fly out on Friday, after 110,000 were booked on cancelled flights on Thursday. A first arrival from China landed at about 6am and the first departure, a Norwegian Airlines flight to Lapland, took off soon after.
The operator of the drone or drones had yet to be discovered, but no further sightings had been recorded since 10pm on Thursday.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/21/gatwick-airport-reopens-limited-number-of-flights-drone-disruption
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And if their goal was to be malicious and provoke a response, does that mean it's terrorism by default? I'm not taking issue with your statement that they need to face punishment, but rather on the labeling it as terrorism. We can label every awful thing as an act of terrorism, but then we lose something in the meaning terrorism. Just to be clear, these folks could have very be terrorists and they were planning on doing something for some sort of political/religious/whatever statement. But we have nothing that suggests that's the case. It could have also been some idiots thinking it would be "cool" to get some video of them flying over an airport. Very stupid and very dangerous, but I would have a hard time saying they are terrorists.
