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Drone incidents on increase

Action is picking up over drones flying too close to airports after a series of incidents over the past two weeks.

Flights into and from Dubai International Airport were disrupted for more than an hour after a device flew into its airspace, while Warsaw Chopin Airport suspended landings for 30min because of the presence of two unauthorised drones.

In Canada, two fighter aircraft were scrambled to investigate reports from two commercial aircraft pilots of a drone over Ottawa during their arrival.

In the UAE, drone owners now have to register with the civil aviation authority and are banned from putting cameras or lasers on their machines and flying in certain areas of Dubai, including airport airspace.

Poland has introduced regulations to forbid drones within a 20km radius of airports. Police are investigating the latest incident.

New rules to deal with the problem are being planned in Canada after the fighter incident, with transport minister Marc Garneau saying he wants tighter regulations to govern the use of drones and training for those who operate them.

His ministry is said to be looking at creating different categories of rules, depending on how much drones weigh and what they are used for.

Transport Canada investigated 97 drone incidents in 2015, compared with 61 in 2014 and six in 2013.

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