Police offer 56,000 euros reward for golden tip Gatwick drone pilot

British police are offering a €56,000 reward for the golden tip that leads authorities to the pilot who flew at least two drones so close to London Gatwick airport on Wednesday that air traffic had to be shut down three times in a three-day period.

Police also announced that a damaged drone has been found in the north of the airport. This is being “forensically examined with great haste”, a spokesperson said in a statement. That writes, among others, The Guardian. Two suspects arrested on Friday evening have been questioned and released. They are no longer under suspicion. A house near Gatwick has also been searched, but nothing has been released about a possible find.

140,000 travelers were stranded at Gatwick as a result of the cat-and-mouse game the drone pilot played with authorities. Some of them even had to spend the night in the halls of the airport. The financial damage from the disruptions is estimated at “millions of pounds,” the paper said. Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport, serving 43 million travelers a year.

Police and defense specialists were deployed to keep the drones from the airport and remain present to prevent any future drone flights. They use anti-drone technology for this, but do not specify what exactly those tools are.