{"id":26274,"date":"2018-12-20T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26274"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:23:06","slug":"flying-of-drones-is-deliberate-act-to-close-gatwick-airport-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26274","title":{"rendered":"Flying of drones is &#8216;deliberate act&#8217; to close Gatwick Airport, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>The United Kingdom&#8217;s second-biggest airport has been closed for more than 19 hours in unprecedented disruption caused by drone sightings, which police have described as a &#8220;deliberate act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport has been closed since 9 p.m. on Wednesday &#8212; bar a brief reprieve of 45 minutes early Thursday morning &#8212; after drones were spotted near the airfield.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">As of Thursday afternoon, police were still on the hunt for the drone operators who have brought the airport to a standstill, causing travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers just days before Christmas.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)The United Kingdom&#8217;s second-biggest airport has been closed for more than 19 hours in unprecedented disruption caused by drone sightings, which police have described as a &#8220;deliberate act.&#8221;London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport has been closed since 9 p.m. on Wednesday &#8212; bar a brief reprieve of 45 minutes early Thursday morning &#8212; after drones were spotted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}