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Drone Wars in a parallel hemisphere -

Via Twitter today:

Someone flew a drone into a Gatwick Airport flight path and caused hours of delays - see the chaos here.

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Via Business Insider:

This map shows the chaos that ensues when a drone flies too close to an airport

• David Ibekwe and Kieran Corcoran
  

A new data visualisation has shown the scale of the disruption caused when a drone gets too close to a major airport.


Footage generated from flight path data shows planes struggling to land at Gatwick on July 2 this year, when air traffic controllers stopped all take-offs and landings because of a drone sighting.

Dozens of flights were delayed, and some redirected entirely because of the closure. The footage, generated from raw data by air traffic monitor NATS, shows how pre-determined holding patterns near the runway quickly filled and then overflowed.

Further flights, shown in orange, were directed to a larger holding route near Southampton, while planes running low on fuel (shown in red) left for other airports.
Even though the runway was only closed for 14 minutes in total (once for nine minutes, then for another five after a second sighting), the drone sighting had knock-on consequences which lasted far longer.

Produced by David Ibekwe

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