Daily Mail: Sussex Police this afternoon confirmed they have found a 'damaged drone' close to Gatwick, Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley said there was 'no available footage and they are relying on witness accounts.' This comes despite witnesses providing MailOnline with video footage of drones hovering above the airspace last week.
Asked about speculation there was never a drone, he said: 'Of course, that's a possibility. We are working with human beings saying they have seen something.' he airport has now offered a £50,000 reward to catch the suspect who operated the device.
Detectives hunting the Gatwick Airport drone operator insist they are 'not back to square one.' Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley said one of the 'working theories' was that the damaged drone found close to the airport in Horley was responsible for causing the disruption.
He said: 'Until we've got more clarity around what they've said, the detail - the time, place, direction of travel, all those types of things - and that's a big task. Always look at it with an open mind, but actually it's very basic common sense that a damaged drone, which may have not been there at a particular point in time has now been seen by an occupier, a member of the public, and then they've told us, 'we've found this'. Then we go and forensically recover it and do everything we can at that location to try and get a bit more information.'
But a source said last night the drone could be ‘a red herring’ and may have been there for some time....read more>>>...
