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    "actor": "Dubai Airports",
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    "quote": "flight departures from Dubai International were suspended",
    "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
    "since": null,
    "sourceIndex": 1,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/transport/dubai-international-departure-delays-due-to-suspected-drone-activity-1.826130",
    "statement": {
     "ar": "أبلغ المشغّل عن تعليق احترازي للمغادرة إثر نشاط مشتبه لمسيّرة. ولم تثبت معدات بعينها.",
     "en": "The operator reported a precautionary departure suspension after suspected drone activity. No particular equipment is established.",
     "fa": "بهره‌بردار تعلیق احتیاطی پروازهای خروجی پس از فعالیت مشکوک پهپاد را گزارش کرد. تجهیزات مشخصی احراز نشده است.",
     "ru": "Оператор сообщил о предупредительной приостановке вылетов после подозрения на активность дрона. Конкретное оборудование не установлено.",
     "uk": "Оператор повідомив про запобіжне призупинення вильотів після підозри на активність дрона. Конкретне обладнання не встановлено."
    }
   }
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  "label": "Dubai International Airport",
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 "assessment_operator_subject": null,
 "assessment_scale_version": null,
 "assessment_target_level": null,
 "assessment_target_range_high": null,
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 "attribution": "No operator established in the selected reporting.",
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 "attributionStatus": "none",
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 "category": "airport",
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  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "drone",
   "claimant": "Dubai Airports via Reuters",
   "id": "suspected-drone",
   "note": "Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.",
   "originId": "dubai-airports-20190215",
   "quote": "due to suspected drone activity",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 0,
   "statement": "The airport spokesperson attributed the suspension to suspected drone activity."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "Dubai Airports via The National",
   "id": "departures-suspended",
   "note": "Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.",
   "originId": "dubai-airports-20190215",
   "quote": "flight departures from Dubai International were suspended",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "The operator specifically confirmed a departure suspension."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "Flightradar24 via The National",
   "id": "tracker-disruption",
   "note": "Literal short passage read on the public article; shared official origins distinguished from separate reporting.",
   "originId": "flightradar24-20190215",
   "quote": "Flightradar24 reporting a 52-minute average delay",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-16",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "The National also reports a separate tracker indication of delay."
  }
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 "corroboration": "curated",
 "country": "United Arab Emirates",
 "countryCode": "AE",
 "date": "2019-02-15",
 "dateKind": "event",
 "droneStatus": "reported",
 "droneStatusSources": [
  0,
  1
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 "droneTypes": [],
 "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.",
 "followUp": [],
 "id": "dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15",
 "impact": "Departures were suspended for 32 minutes. The National also reported flight-tracking evidence of delays and resumed traffic.",
 "impactStatus": "confirmed",
 "impactStatusSources": [
  0,
  1
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 "lat": 25.2,
 "locationPrecision": "region",
 "lon": 55.27,
 "media": [],
 "namedLocation": null,
 "operationalEffects": [],
 "outcome": [],
 "place": "Dubai",
 "plainSummary": {},
 "publisherMedia": [],
 "reportTiming": null,
 "review": "editor",
 "revision": 2,
 "scope": "single",
 "series": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "family": "reuters",
   "label": "Reuters / Euronews: airport suspension",
   "published": "2019-02-15",
   "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/15/drones-temporarily-ground-all-dubai-airport-flights"
  },
  {
   "family": "the-national",
   "label": "The National: operator statement and flight tracking",
   "published": "2019-02-15",
   "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/transport/dubai-international-departure-delays-due-to-suspected-drone-activity-1.826130"
  }
 ],
 "summary": "Dubai International Airport suspended departures on 15 February 2019 after suspected drone activity. The operator gave a suspension window of 10:13–10:45 UAE local time.",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2019-02-15",
   "source": 1,
   "text": "Airport departures suspended after suspected drone activity; traffic resumes that morning."
  }
 ],
 "title": "Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures",
 "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.",
 "updatedAt": "2026-10-17",
 "windowBasis": null,
 "windowEnd": null,
 "windowStart": null
}