{"id":12486,"date":"2019-02-15T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-02-15T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:50:00","slug":"unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unauthorised Drone Activity At Dubai International Airport Caused A MAJOR Halt In Departures This Friday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended on Friday morning due to an unusual activity.<\/p>\n

A suspected drone activity caused Dubai Airport to temporarily close, much to the chagrin of the passengers.<\/p>\n

Several disgruntled flyers took to Twitter to rant about the situation.<\/p>\n

When one of the world’s busiest airport temporarily halts its services<\/h3>\n
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Dubai airport going nowhere due to drone flying around. So thousands of people sitting in planes going nowhere. What is wrong with people flying drones near airports!!!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrew Todd (@andrewjtodd) February 15, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Never seen Dubai Airport like this”<\/h3>\n
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Never seen #dubaiairport<\/a> like this. So glad to be through that. Just another 5 or so hours to Sri Lanka now!… pic.twitter.com\/KJ2bNAr51a<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ollie Mulkeen (@OllieTrumpet) February 11, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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According to a Dubai Airports spokesperson, the services were interrupted between 10.13am and 10.45am, for about 30 minutes this morning.<\/p>\n

The following official statement was released by the authorities…<\/h3>\n
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Dubai Airports confirms that operations at Dubai International are back to normal after less than 30 minutes of delay due to unauthorized drone activity.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) February 15, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Flying unauthorised drones are against the UAE laws<\/h3>\n
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Authorities warned that flying drones without obtaining permission is subject to legal liability as per UAE laws.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) February 15, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Dubai Airports is working closely with the appropriate authorities to ensure that the safety of airport operations is maintained at all times and to minimise any inconvenience to our customers”, the statement further said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended on Friday morning due to an unusual activity. A suspected drone activity caused Dubai Airport to temporarily close, much to the chagrin of the passengers. Several disgruntled flyers took to Twitter to rant about the situation. When one of the world’s busiest airport temporarily halts its services … ","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/02\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-12.31.01-PM.png?mtime=20190215123019","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/02\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-12.31.01-PM.png?mtime=20190215123019 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"An Unauthorised Drone Activity At Dubai International Airport Caused A MAJOR Halt In Departures This Friday Morning - Lovin Dubai<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended on Friday morning due to an unusual activity.\nA suspected drone activity caused Dubai Airport to temporarily close, much to the chagrin of the passengers.\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Unauthorised Drone Activity At Dubai International Airport Caused A MAJOR Halt In Departures This Friday Morning\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Services have now been resumed\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-12.31.01-PM.png?mtime=20190215123019\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"711\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovindubai\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"An Unauthorised Drone Activity At Dubai International Airport Caused A MAJOR Halt In Departures This Friday Morning\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended on Friday morning due to an unusual activity.\nA suspected drone activity caused Dubai Airport to temporarily close, much to the chagrin of the passengers.\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/unauthorised-drone-activity-dxb-delay-in-departures\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-12.31.01-PM.png?mtime=20190215123019\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Nikita","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}