760 flights diverted from Gatwick airport after drone scare, affecting 110,000 passengers

This may also come under Public Nuisance which has no maximum sentence.

And there have been various suggestions as to motive, including climate change protesters (who have a record of disrupting flights, though not this successfully). Also, Britain First (i.e. Nazi) leader Jayda Fransen was apparently arrested when her flight from Belfast landed at Gatwick yesterday morning.

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