{"id":485503,"date":"2025-10-09T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:17:15","slug":"edinburgh-airport-flights-disrupted-by-drone-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485503\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Airport flights disrupted by drone sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Police have been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> Airport spokesperson told The Herald: \u201cFlights were held due to the presence of a\u00a0drone\u00a0within the exclusion zone, which police investigated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt is imperative that\u00a0drone\u00a0operators are aware of their responsibilities and are aware of the flight restriction zones and potential penalties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The safety of passengers and staff is always paramount.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Herald has contacted Police Scotland for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have been informed. An Edinburgh Airport spokesperson told The Herald: \u201cFlights were held due to the presence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-485503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115343933070913666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}