US to Ease Long-Range Drone Rules in Boon for Walmart, Alphabet August 6, 2025 By Melos Ambaye and Allyson Versprille President Donald Trump’s administration proposed a rule to allow more commercial drones to fly beyond an operator’s visual line of...
Drone Crashes, Security Threats Have States Demanding Power to Take Them Down July 21, 2025 By Melos Ambaye While authorities were desperately trying to save people from the deadly Fourth of July floods in Kerr County, Texas, a...
UK to Extend No-Fly Zone for Drones Flying Near Airports February 20, 2019 By Christopher Jasper Britain will impose a 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) drone exclusion zone around its runways as the government responds to illegal...
Dubai International Airport Suspends Flights over Suspected Drones February 15, 2019 By Ladane Nasseri Flights from Dubai International Airport were suspended for half an hour starting from 10:13 a.m. local time over “suspected drone...
Drone Travel Chaos at Gatwick Airport Cost EasyJet Nearly $20 Million January 22, 2019 By Alistair Smout EasyJet lost 15 million pounds ($19 million) during 36 hours of travel chaos sparked by drones flying into London’s Gatwick...
London’s Heathrow Briefly Halts Flights After Drone Sighting January 8, 2019 By Benjamin Katz and Irene García Pérez The Heathrow airport was partially shut for more than an hour after drone sightings near runways raised safety concerns, the...
Ineffective Anti-Drone Systems Leave U.S. Airports Facing Risks Like London’s December 27, 2018 By Alan Levin, Ryan Beene and Justin Bachman U.S. airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut...
London’s Gatwick Airport Reopens After Drones Cause 36 Hours of Travel Chaos December 21, 2018 By Toby Melville London’s Gatwick Airport reopened on Friday after a saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for over a hundred thousand...
London’s Gatwick Airport Suspends Flights on Multiple Drone Sightings December 20, 2018 By Christopher Jasper , Justin Bachman and Kyunghee Park London’s Gatwick airport is closed to aircraft following multiple sightings of illegal drones, disrupting flights for as many as 115,000...
Drone Hobbyists May Soon Lose Their Freedom from Regulation September 28, 2018 By Alan Levin The Wild West days of unregulated recreational drones may be nearing an end. A bill close to passage in Congress...