| Flights have resumed at Dublin Airport after a drone sighting over the airfield earlier today. In a tweet, the airport said the decision was made for safety reasons. It later advised that flights had begun again. In January the Department of Transport said a detailed risk assessment was to be carried out to assess if Irish airports are prepared for potential drone activity. The meeting was organised in light of of drone sightings at Gatwick and Heathrow in the UK. At the time Minister for Transport Shane Ross said he had been reassured that there are already strong regulatory provisions in place in Ireland, which control and restrict the use of drones including an exclusion zone of 5km around airports.
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For a three-day period from 19-21 December last year a drone was flying near runways at Gatwick which forced the repeated closure of the airport. On 8 January Heathrow Airport suspended flights for about an hour due to reports of drones at the huge transport hub. Later in January flights were suspended at Newark Airport in New Jersey after reports of drone sightings there. Let's block ads! (Why?)
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