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The Guardian - AU
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Kate Lyons

'Drone wolf': what the papers say about the Gatwick airport chaos

Front pages of the UK papers following the shutdown of Gatwick airport due to a drone
Front pages of the UK papers following the shutdown of Gatwick airport due to a drone Composite: Various

Drone chaos at Gatwick dominates the front pages today, with papers talking about a “lone-wolf” “maniac” who has “ruined” Christmas for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

The Daily Mail is incredulous, asking: “How COULD this speck in the sky ruin Christmas for 350,000?”

The newspaper was ready to call off Christmas, saying “Up to 350,000 passengers had their Christmas holiday plans ruined yesterday as a rogue drone operator single-handedly brought our second largest airport to its knees.”

The Express feels similarly: “Just how can drone maniac shut Gatwick?”.

“Chaos in the skies,” was the i’s headline. Its story speaks of the “manhunt” underway for what it dubs the “Gatwick drone attacker”.

The Sun calls the drone pilot: “The drone wolf”, saying that a “lone-wolf eco activist” was “feared to be behind” the attacks.

The Telegraph is also blaming environmentalists, citing a Whitehall source who suggested they could be responsible: “Eco-warriors blamed for drone attack that crippled Gatwick”, is their headline.

The Guardian reports “Gatwick chaos sparks call for new controls on drones”, and reports on the “disbelief that the incident could be enough to bring one of Britain’s main airports to a standstill”.

The Times focuses on the decision to bring in the army, in a bid to catch the “operators behind Christmas misery”. Their splash is: “Army called in as drones force Gatwick shutdown”.

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