Following a drone incident that grounded planes and disrupted operations at the UK’s second-largest airport just days ahead of Christmas, officials say they have made two arrests in connection with the event.
Following a drone incident that grounded planes and disrupted operations at the UK’s second-largest airport just days ahead of Christmas, officials say they have made two arrests in connection with the event.
Large drones appeared over London’s Gatwick Airport on Wednesday, resulting in chaos during one of the busiest travel times of the year. Sussex Police now say they arrested a 54-year-old woman and 47-year-old man, both of whom were said to be from neighboring Crawley, just after 10 p.m. local time on Friday. The two individuals were arrested on “suspicion of disrupting services of civil aviation aerodrome to endanger or likely to endanger safety of operations or persons.”
“As part of our ongoing investigations into the criminal use of drones which has severely disrupted flights in and out of Gatwick Airport, Sussex Police made two arrests,” Superintendent James Collis of the Sussex Police said in a statement on Saturday.
