London’s Gatwick airport re-opens after drone chaos
About 700 flights are set to take off with army and police snipers still hunting for the rogue drone operators
London — London's Gatwick Airport re-opened on Friday after a drone saboteur wrought travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of Christmas travelers by flying drones overhead, playing cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army. After the biggest disruption at Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, since a volcanic ash cloud in 2010, Gatwick said its runway was open and that 700 planes were due to take off on Friday, although there would still be delays and cancellations. “Gatwick’s runway is currently available and a limited number of aircraft are scheduled for departure and arrival,” the airport said. Flights were halted at 21.03pm GMT on Wednesday after two drones were spotted near the airfield. The disruption affected 120,000 people. The army and police snipers were called in to hunt down the drones, thought to be industrial style craft, which flew near the airport every time it tried to re-open on Thursday. There was mystery over the motivation of the drone operator, or op...
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