Heathrow drone protest foiled by jamming device, say climate change activists – The Times, Thetimes.co.uk

They wanted to cause chaos for airline passengers by flying drones near Heathrow. The only flights that failed to take off were their own.

Climate change activists from Heathrow Pause, a splinter of the protest group Extinction Rebellion, claimed that a jamming device had grounded the drones. They had to resort instead to holding up the drones with their hands to mimic flight.

A video posted by activists on Twitter yesterday morning shows them repeatedly trying to fly a drone at the edge of the airport. It flashes its lights on the ground but refuses to lift off.

They then discuss how a jamming system must be blocking the controller’s signal. One says: “I think probably Heathrow are going to be completely happy with this…