Three flights were sent to Stansted after a possible drone sighting at the airport but they were later able to return.
A possible drone sighting at Gatwick Airport forced the diversion of three flights on Sunday.
The flights - two from Barcelona and Amsterdam operated by easyJet and a British Airways flight from Heraklion - were sent to Stansted Airport. Later the planes took off from Stansted and were able to land at Gatwick, more than 90 minutes after their scheduled arrival time.It comes after drone sightings caused flight cancellations at Gatwick and London's busiest airport Heathrow in recent months.Gatwick had toAround 140,000 passengers' journeys were disrupted and the army had to be called in with anti-drone equipment, which remained at the airport until last month.
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