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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h ... o-19026732Heathrow drone protest: Airport says plans 'criminal and counterproductive'
29 August 2019
Climate campaigners' plans to use drones to disrupt flights are "criminal and counterproductive", Heathrow Airport said.
Heathrow Pause, an Extinction Rebellion offshoot, are to fly toy drones within the no-fly zone, grounding all flights, on 13 September.
Organisers expect up to "a couple of hundred people" to be involved.
The Met Police said it would "do everything in its power to stop and prevent any such criminal activity".
The activists said they "can't stand aside" and have to act, with disruption intended to last for a number of days and potentially longer.
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Activists with Heathrow Pause, a splinter group of Extinction Rebellion,
have said they will operate small toy drones from 3am on Friday 13 September.
A spokesman for the organisation said it expected “somewhere between 50 to a couple of hundred people” to be involved in the action,
with each person using a drone.
With disruption intended to last for a number of days and potentially longer, the activists said they “can’t stand aside” and had to act.
“From 13 September, we will exploit a loophole in Heathrow airport’s health and safety protocols and fly toy drones within its restricted zone,” the group said.
“It is our understanding that the airport’s authorities will respond by grounding all flights.
Drones will not be flown in flight paths and there will be no risk of harm to anyone.
The group said the small, lightweight drones would not be flown above head height or on flight paths,
and activists planned to fly them within the three-mile (5km) exclusion zone surrounding the airport.
With the airport to be given an hour’s notice before each flight,
drones will be flown at regular intervals,
ensuring that to “comply with Heathrow’s own rules, no aircraft flights will take place”.
A Metropolitan police spokeswoman said the force was aware of the planned protest.