{"id":30582,"date":"2023-03-03T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30582"},"modified":"2023-03-03T05:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:34:16","slug":"flights-diverted-over-dublin-airport-drone-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30582","title":{"rendered":"Flights diverted over Dublin Airport drone sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flights at Dublin Airport were suspended for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening after a confirmed drone sighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three flights were diverted &#8211; two to Shannon Airport and one to Belfast International &#8211; as a result of the activity, the airport said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operations were suspended from 18:27 local time and resumed at about 18:59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the sixth time flights have been suspended at Dublin Airport due to drone sightings since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said passengers were inconvenienced as a result of the &#8220;reckless and illegal activity&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is prohibited to operate a drone within 5km (3.1 miles) of the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for DAA, the operator of Dublin Airport, said: &#8220;Drones causing disruptions at airports is a state-wide issue that needs to be tackled with new legislation, a state agency responsible for managing counter drone technology and harsher sentences.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Flights at Dublin Airport were suspended for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening after a confirmed drone sighting. Three flights were diverted &#8211; two to Shannon Airport and one to Belfast International &#8211; as a result of the activity, the airport said. Operations were suspended from 18:27 local time and resumed at about 18:59. It is the sixth time flights have been suspended at Dublin Airport due to drone sightings since January. It said passengers were inconvenienced as a result of the &#8220;reckless and illegal activity&#8221;. It is prohibited to operate a drone within 5km (3.1 miles) of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30584,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions\/30584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}