Drone Closes DXB - again

[Dubaian]

Drone closes busy Dubai International Airport for an hour | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/11/drone-closes-busy-dubai-international-airport-for-hour.html)


The National newspaper yesterday reported some 17 flights were diverted. Mostly to Maktoum but some to Al Ain & Sharjah.
That's a pretty serious disruption.


Anyone know if the drone was taken out of the sky, or just ran out of battery life and thus ceased to be any threat??

[Kapitanleutnant]

There is at least one maker of drones (DJI) that evidently has a installed a system which won't allow their drones to transit/fly into an Airport traffic area. Not sure how it works but that's what they advertise.

K

[Wizofoz]

Because it has a GPS and an airspace data base.

But you can put a quad-copter together from components very easily and have no such restrictions.