Operations suspended several times over bank holiday weekend due to drone sightings near airfield
“The Guards also have a particular role, anyone doing this obviously [is] subject to arrest, and that’s the best way of stopping it, people realising that if they are, they’re taking a huge risk with their own liberty.”
Mr Byrne told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that the disruption of flights at Dublin airport over the weekend was “just unbelievable”. “The people doing this are not in that field at all,” said Mr Byrne. “The effects of an aircraft taking off and ingesting one of these things would be extremely serious. It would probably lose the engine because unlike the birds, this thing is made of metal and plastic. It will cause a catastrophic failure of an engine. And we just can’t have that. It’s criminal. It should be stopped.”“I believe they were seen after dark only because they’ve got a flashing light, you see.
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