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  "id": "auckland-airport-drone-report-2018-03-06",
  "title": "Auckland Airport suspends operations after pilot drone report",
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  "evidence": "1News directly quotes the airline’s operational account; the pilots’ association issued its own same-day statement and relayed police information. Both ultimately concern the same reported pilot sighting, so they do not establish two independent technical detections.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/auckland-airport-drone-report-2018-03-06/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Auckland Airport suspends operations after pilot drone report”, dossier auckland-airport-drone-report-2018-03-06, revision 1, updated 2026-10-16. https://droneincidents.com/incident/auckland-airport-drone-report-2018-03-06/",
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