UAE grapples with drones after halted air traffic in Dubai
Dubai authorities are grappling with new ways of keeping the emirate’s skies safe after drones halted air traffic at one of the world’s busiest airports 3 times last year. The delays were necessary to protect passengers, officials said, but they hit thousands of travellers and cost airlines millions of dollars. Drones pose a “threat to the flying public” and “to an aircraft in operation,” said Ismaeil al Blooshi, deputy head of the air safety department of the United Arab Emirates’ civil aviation authority. He compared drones to the threat posed by birds, but said they were less predictable and harder to avoid. “We have means and data to predict when and where is the bird migration... but with drones, you have this object in the air and you don’t know the intentions” of the operator, he said. <br/>
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UAE grapples with drones after halted air traffic in Dubai
Dubai authorities are grappling with new ways of keeping the emirate’s skies safe after drones halted air traffic at one of the world’s busiest airports 3 times last year. The delays were necessary to protect passengers, officials said, but they hit thousands of travellers and cost airlines millions of dollars. Drones pose a “threat to the flying public” and “to an aircraft in operation,” said Ismaeil al Blooshi, deputy head of the air safety department of the United Arab Emirates’ civil aviation authority. He compared drones to the threat posed by birds, but said they were less predictable and harder to avoid. “We have means and data to predict when and where is the bird migration... but with drones, you have this object in the air and you don’t know the intentions” of the operator, he said. <br/>
