{"id":28342,"date":"2019-01-08T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28342"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:23:25","slug":"heathrow-airport-flights-resume-after-drone-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28342","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport: Flights resume after drone sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"96.5869829684\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Departure flights resumed at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday after they were briefly suspended following reports of a drone sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We are working with Air Traffic Control and the Met Police, and have resumed departures out of Heathrow after a short suspension,&#8221;\u00a0authorities at\u00a0<span>UK&#8217;s busiest <\/span>airport\u00a0said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We will continue to monitor this and apologise to anyone that were affected,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said it was investigating the alleged drone sighting which led to outgoing flights being temporarily grounded for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>British Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the military was preparing to deploy the same equipment at Heathrow that was used at Gatwick in the wake of a drone scare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have already spoken to both the Home Secretary and Defence Secretary and the military are preparing to deploy the equipment used at Gatwick at Heathrow quickly should it prove necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s second busiest airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/arrested-gatwick-drone-sighting-airport-reopens-181222054317785.html\">Gatwick<\/a>, was severely disrupted when drones were sighted on three consecutive days in December, resulting in about 1,000 flights being cancelled or diverting and affecting 140,000 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The army deployed unidentified military technology to guard the area, reassuring the airport that it was safe enough to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow and Gatwick responded by ordering military-grade anti-drone defences worth &#8220;several million pounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow said earlier this month it was working closely with authorities including the police and looking at relevant technology to combat the threat of drones.<\/p>\n<p><span>UK government introduced new police powers against drones flown near airports this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departure flights resumed at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday after they were briefly suspended following reports of a drone sighting. &#8220;We are working with Air Traffic Control and the Met Police, and have resumed departures out of Heathrow after a short suspension,&#8221;\u00a0authorities at\u00a0UK&#8217;s busiest airport\u00a0said on Twitter. &#8220;We will continue to monitor this and apologise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342","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=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}