Tag: Gatwick Drone Debacle

The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 5

My eyes kept flicking from my phone, the time, and the flight board. A few maintenance workers passed me, likely wondering if I hadn’t lost my wits. It was uncertainty, delays, stress, yelling, a sprint marathon, missed connections, and a panic attack all sunk into a little under forty eight hours.

The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 4

The plan was to get food, get a plane ticket, get my stuff, go home. God must have had a proper laugh when that plan popped into my head.

The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 3

Not totally aware of what I was doing, or where I was going, I made my way over to where I thought a hotel might be. With the exception of roughly an hour nap I had been awake for almost 24 hours at that point. I don’t know how nurses do it.

The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 2

After several hours of delays the flights were then cancelled, and the airlines were plunged into the Herculean task of having to deal with all of those angry customers. Eventually we were told the plan: Birmingham.

The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 1

A week before Christmas in 2018, Gatwick Airport was shut down by drones. The police interviewed suspects but the culprit never apprehended. You likely heard about it on the news; a story about panicked police searching for the drones while airline passengers grew red… Continue Reading “The Gatwick Drone Debacle: Part 1”