editor victoria’s comment ~ well that didn’t take long. one of those to place in the “no duh” files. hint as to what it was:
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Police have revealed that the drone responsible for hundreds of cancelled or diverted Gatwick flights might not have even existed.
Lucy Middleton
Sunday 23 Dec 2018 6:36 pm
Officers were said to be keeping an ‘open mind’ after a damaged drone was discovered at the airport on December 22. But while Detective Chief Superintendent for Surrey and Sussex Police Jason Tingley said it was ‘a working assumption’ that the aerial vehicle is connected to airport’s closure, he could not confirm its involvement.
‘We are also going through many reports of sightings of drone activity over the last few days,’ he said. ‘We are meticulously going through that information to see if that produces any other further lines of inquiry, and also where we may focus our efforts in terms of house-to-house inquiries, CCTV footage, and any other information that will help us work through this investigation.’
He added that there was ‘always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place’, but that officers were working on a range of information from members of the public, police officers and Gatwick staff who had said otherwise.
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