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Airport disrupted by fans filming Download Festival with drones
Download Festival with a drone.The festival is taking place at Donington Park this weekend (June 10-12) just one mile from the airport.Statements from the airport, Leicestershire Police and the festival say that drones used to film the rock festival led to the delays and one runway being closed.“It beggars belief that someone would do this,” the airport’s managing director Clare James said (via Daily Mail).“It’s a criminal offence, it is very inconvenient for passengers, it costs thousands of pounds for cargo carriers but most of all it is a flight safety risk.“We have detection equipment here, we are working with police, so my message to whoever is doing this is just stop or face prosecution.”On Friday night (June 10), six passenger flights and two cargo flights were rerouted to airports including Leeds and Manchester. The runway was closed for an hour from 11.15pm.