Flights Suspended at Britain’s Gatwick Airport

Flights Suspended at Britain’s Gatwick Airport
The air traffic control tower at Gatwick Airport is seen through fields in southern England, Britain, October 9, 2016. Reuters/Toby Melville
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Gatwick airport, the second-busiest in Britain, said on Dec. 19 it had suspended flights while it investigated reports of two drones flying over its airfield.

An increase in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets has fuelled safety concerns in the aviation industry in recent years.