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Heathrow Airport: closure of the airspace for a drone

New failure of security measures taken

Despite the precautions taken to defend the airspace of UK airports from new invasion by drones, yesterday the London-Heathrow airport -the principal in Europe- was closed for almost an hour because of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle spotted in the adjacent skies. 60 minutes of total suspension of operations that forced air traffic control to divert some incoming connections and to block all departing aircraft,...

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London, United Kingdom, 01/09/2019 10:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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