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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2018 · News & Politics

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(Dis)credit - Daily Mail - only one problem its flapping and looks like a seagull!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6513923/Chaos-Gatwick-drone-spotted-near-airport-SHUTS-runway.html

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FIRST VIDEO of the drone holding hundreds of thousands hostage: Gatwick saboteur plays cat-and-mouse with snipers as drone is spotted AGAIN, minutes before airport was due to re-open - with chaos set to last until Xmas Eve
Dozens of police hunting for expert drone pilot likely to be operating in a five mile zone around the airport 
Gatwick hoped to re-open by 4pm - but rogue pilot sent out drone minutes before as crisis reached 24 hours 
All 760 flights in and out of Gatwick Airport cancelled today leaving 110,000 completely stranded
Gatwick CEO and police reveals incursions are deliberate as snipers are readied to shoot any drones down
Disruption at the airport will run into Friday and Saturday - the busiest days of the Christmas getaway
Experts believe pilot is highly-skilled and using expensive industrial drones with a range of five miles or more 
Chaos began at 9pm yesterday with flight ban in place due to at least ten incursions over the main runway  
A large drone could bring down a passenger jet if it was sucked into jet engine or smashed hole in aircraft
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By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and DARREN BOYLE and SEBASTIAN MURPHY-BATES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 22:22, 19 December 2018

The is the first footage of the drone that has shut down Gatwick for the past 24 hours as the Army was called in to help shoot it down and the 110,000 people stranded on the ground warned the chaos could continue until Christmas Eve.

Its rogue pilot is in a cat-and-mouse game with police and sent the unmanned small aircraft over the runway at 3pm, minutes after airport bosses announced they had hoped to re-open at 4pm. 

The drone flights are 'highly targeted' and have 'been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas', the airport's chief executive officer, Stewart Wingate, said. 

Exclusive footage obtained by MailOnline shows the drone flying past Gatwick's north terminal and over the runway before it dives away and lands to the east of the airport after being chased by a police helicopter. 

On the ground armed officers carrying Heckler & Koch sniper rifles have been dotted along the runway ready to shoot down the drone - but have failed to end the most disruptive airport trespass in UK history. 

Today 760 flights were grounded over fears the drone could take down a passenger jet with Gatwick's runway set to be closed until the manhunt ends. 

Airport bosses have warned the disruption will run into Friday and Saturday - the busiest days of the festive getaway - but passengers already stranded are struggling to get a new flight before Christmas Eve or have had to cancel their trips completely. 

The Ministry of Defence confirmed this afternoon that it has deployed 'specialist equipment' to deal with the situation after police requested help.

Officers requested soldiers to test the Army's new weapon - known as a 'Drone Dome' or 'kill-jammer' - which can 'soft kill' a drone by knocking out its communications or a 'hard kill' by shooting it down with a laser from up to two miles away. The MoD has not confirmed what it meant by 'specialist equipment'.

The shutdown at Gatwick today has renewed calls for the use of anti-drone technology at British airports including frequency jammers and early warning systems now common near US runways. 

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