{"id":389802,"date":"2018-12-20T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/londons-gatwick-airport-shut-down-over-drone-sighting-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:29:57","slug":"londons-gatwick-airport-shut-down-over-drone-sighting-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/londons-gatwick-airport-shut-down-over-drone-sighting-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Gatwick airport shut down over drone sighting \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/thumbnail\/5c1ad1fedda4c806698b4620.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 19 Dec, 2018 22:44 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 19 Dec, 2018 23:24 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        All inbound and outbound flights at London\u2019s Gatwick airport have been suspended after drones were seen in its airspace, airport authorities have confirmed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Gatwick officials said\u00a0two drone were sighted near the runway. A police helicopter was dispatched to track down the vehicle and its operator, so far without success.<\/p>\n<p>The second-busiest airport in the UK has had to divert flights to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p>The airport has advised anyone traveling on Wednesday or Thursday to check their flight status first, implying that the closure would last beyond Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/446902-gatwick-airport-drone-grounded\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 19 Dec, 2018 22:44 Edited time: 19 Dec, 2018 23:24 All inbound and outbound flights at London\u2019s Gatwick airport have been suspended after drones were seen in its airspace, airport authorities have confirmed. Gatwick officials said\u00a0two drone were sighted near the runway. A police helicopter was dispatched to track down the vehicle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}