106°F
weather icon Windy
Las Vegas, NV
Nation and World

London’s Heathrow airport resumes flights after drone sightings

A plane takes off over a road sign near Heathrow Airport in London on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, FILE)
More Stories
An uncompleted smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and Otay Mesa uncovered by the U.S. Border Patr ...
‘Highly sophisticated’ border tunnel found under California’s Otay Mesa Port of Entry
ICE agents stage outside Gate E of Dodger Stadium on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Sporadic immigrat ...
ICE agents asked to leave Dodger Stadium parking lot, team says
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fire ...
Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks
Karen Read watches jurors enter the courtroom to resume deliberations during her trial at Norfo ...
Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder
The Associated Press
January 8, 2019 - 10:39 am
 
Updated January 8, 2019 - 10:50 am

LONDON — Officials at London’s Heathrow Airport say flights are being allowed to take off again after departures were suspended due to a reported drone sighting.

The announcement came roughly 90 minutes after London’s Metropolitan Police received a report about a drone sighting in the vicinity of Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.

Officials did not provide details about the suspension but said more information should be forthcoming.

Heathrow said in a statement: “Based on standard operating procedures, working with Air Traffic Control and the Met Police, we have resumed departures out of Heathrow following a short suspension.”

Police have not said whether the investigation confirmed a drone a drone actually flew near the airport.

MOST READ
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
THE LATEST
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fire ...
Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks
By Sam Mednick, Natalie Melzer and Jon Gambrell The Associated Press

The president has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to be out of reach of all but America’s “bunker-buster” bombs.

Karen Read watches jurors enter the courtroom to resume deliberations during her trial at Norfo ...
Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder
By Michael Casey and Patrick Whittle Associated Press

A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

Chef Anne Burrell (Ron Adzar/Shutterstock)
Food Network star Anne Burrell dead at 55
By Kelly Bryant Parade

Chef Anne Burrell, best known for her many appearances on Food Network over the years, passed away on the morning of Tuesday, June 17. She was 55 years old.

 
NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate arrested outside immigration court
By Cedar Attanasio The Associated Press

Brad Lander’s detainment comes a little more than a month after Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on a trespassing charge outside a federal immigration detention center in his city.

Dr. Stephaun Wallace, who leads the global external relations strategies COVID-19 Prevention Ne ...
‘Razor blade throat’ on the rise as new COVID subvariant spreads
Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times

COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in some parts of California as a new, highly contagious subvariant — featuring “razor blade throat” symptoms overseas — is becoming increasingly dominant.

MORE STORIES