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  "note": "Citable weekly snapshot (CSV + JSON) archived on Zenodo; this DOI always resolves to the latest version."
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  "title": "Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures",
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  "date": "2019-02-15",
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  "impact": "Departures were suspended for 32 minutes. The National also reported flight-tracking evidence of delays and resumed traffic.",
  "evidence": "Reuters and The National relay the same airport statement about suspected drones. The National additionally reports a separate Flightradar24 observation of disruption. These are two reporting families, but not independent drone identification.",
  "unknown": "Drone identification and operator remain unverified here. Reuters broadly says all flights; the explicit operator statement specifies departures, which this dossier follows. The tracker average delay is not the suspension duration. Closure times are not drone observation times.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures”, dossier dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15, revision 1, updated 2026-10-16. https://droneincidents.com/incident/dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15/",
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    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
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