A drone, spotted over Gatwick Airport, led to an abundance of caution among air traffic controllers. The result: a growing armada of inbound flights redirected into increasingly-chaotic epicycles over southern England, a crap solar system of annoyed travelers. [via]
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Oct 31, 2017
Animation of an elegant air traffic nightmare caused by a drone
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