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04/04/2019 | Funds For Airport Upgrades Sought

SALISBURY – A request for additional funds to fix a deteriorating electrical system at the Salisbury airport this week highlighted the need for extensive capital improvements at the facility. On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council approved a request from Airport Manager Dawn Veatch to use $46,770 from contingency funds to …

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Drone reports briefly halt flights at Newark airport

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More than 40 flights headed to Newark Liberty International Airport were disrupted as the airport temporarily shut down arrivals Tuesday after a pilot reported a drone coming within about 30 feet. A pilot on a Southwest Airlines flight first reported the device at 4:44 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation …

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Reports of drone force ground stop at Newark airport

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Arriving flights were halted at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Tuesday when a drone was spotted near a neighboring airport, officials said. Two airplanes headed to Newark reported seeing a drone around 5 p.m. over Teterboro Airport, a smaller airport located roughly 18 miles northeast of Newark, the …

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Drone forces London’s Heathrow Airport into lockdown

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Departures from London’s Heathrow Airport were suspended for about an hour overnight after a drone sighting. The shut down comes just three weeks after Gatwick, Britain’s second-busiest airport, was closed over three days because of drone sightings. Heathrow Airport tweeted: “We are responding to a drone sighting at Heathrow and …

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Heathrow Airport says suspending departures after drone sigh…

London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest hub in terms of passenger numbers, said it has suspended all departing flights on Tuesday following a drone sighting. “We are responding to a drone sighting at Heathrow and are working closely with the Met Police to prevent any threat to operational safety,” the airport’s …

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Failure of anti-drone tests exposes US airport vulnerability…

US airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut down the UK’s second-busiest hub this week. Counter-drone technology performed so poorly in US government tests in recent years that the systems couldn’t reliably identify rogue unmanned aircraft, casting doubts …

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