Drones are a well known problem & have been for sometime. Many countries have developed counter measures, some of which are more easily defeated than others. The problem is not only at the company level where costs are cut too far to keep the directors bonuses share dividends flowing. Far too many people and companies fail to recognise the difference between what you can do and what you should do with banks and financial institution being a regular emperor with no clothes on when the financial tide goes out as an example.
Why am I not surprised it was Gatfick Gatwick? Cheaper to have one comms link for all flight displays, what could possibly go wrong? Gives a clue.
The other big problem are our politicians which I hope where Westminster will change from acting like a village council that they now have to earn their living (rather than most of the month spent on creatively fiddling their expenses) where they can now longer put most problems in the EU out tray to make them go away, but will now have to run (or not, until the next GE), where we can have a clear out of the duffers & misfits. BTW Anna Sozbury's expenses were almost £200k, which again IME the worse and ineffective an MP is the bigger their annual expenses.
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Gatwick, and all airports, take their safeguarding responsibilities incredibly seriously. They have to. As part of the safeguarding systems, the issue of drones is not new and the airport has taken steps to address the perceived threat from drones. Unfortunately in this situation, which is clearly a deliberate attack, the measures to prevent irresponsible but otherwise non malicious incursions have been proven to fall short of the current situation.
I really cannot say any more than that Airfield Operations are continuously doing everything within their powers to maintain a safe aerodrome.
An overreaction to a seemingly simple problem? Perhaps,
but the consequences of not doing enough are unthinkable.
Try and politicise it as much as you like, but at the end of the day, there is nothing more to this than a repeated, unauthorised incursion.