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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",
  "sourceIndex": 1
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 "assessment_droneType_range_low": null,
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 "assessment_operator_level": null,
 "assessment_operator_range_high": null,
 "assessment_operator_range_low": null,
 "assessment_operator_subject": null,
 "assessment_scale_version": null,
 "assessment_target_level": null,
 "assessment_target_range_high": null,
 "assessment_target_range_low": null,
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 "attribution": "No operator established in the selected reporting.",
 "attributionSources": [],
 "attributionStatus": "none",
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 "category": "airport",
 "checkedAt": "2026-10-28",
 "claims": [
  {
   "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",
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   "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."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "The National citing Flightradar24",
   "id": "tracking-average-delay",
   "note": "Checked against an immutable full source snapshot. Source wording supports this attributed statement; shared originals and limits are explained in the evidence section.",
   "originId": "national-flight-tracking-observation-20190215",
   "quote": "reporting a 52-minute average delay.",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-28",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 1,
   "statement": "The National reported an average-delay observation from a flight-tracking service."
  },
  {
   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "impact",
   "claimant": "Airport spokesperson reported by Reuters",
   "id": "operator-departure-window",
   "note": "Checked against an immutable full source snapshot. Source wording supports this attributed statement; shared originals and limits are explained in the evidence section.",
   "originId": "dubai-airports-statement-20190215",
   "quote": "The suspension lasted from 10:13 local time to 10:45 a.m.",
   "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-28",
   "quoteTranslation": {},
   "relay": "relayed",
   "sourceIndex": 0,
   "statement": "The operator’s described restriction ran from 10:13 to 10:45 local time."
  }
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 "corroboration": "curated",
 "country": "United Arab Emirates",
 "countryCode": "AE",
 "date": "2019-02-15",
 "dateKind": "event",
 "droneStatus": "reported",
 "droneStatusSources": [
  0,
  1
 ],
 "droneTypes": [],
 "evidence": "Reuters and The National both relay the airport operator’s suspected-drone account, so that account is one original statement rather than two technical drone identifications. The National’s observation of Flightradar 24 supplies a separately produced description of the operational aftermath. It does not identify a drone or establish why every individual flight was delayed. Historical references to other Dubai or British airport events remain context and are not counted as part of this 15 February case.",
 "followUp": [],
 "id": "dubai-airport-suspected-drone-2019-02-15",
 "impact": "Departures were suspended for 32 minutes according to the operator. The National separately reported a 52-minute average delay from a flight-tracking service. These describe restriction duration and observed delay respectively, not two periods of airport closure.",
 "impactStatus": "confirmed",
 "impactStatusSources": [
  0,
  1
 ],
 "lat": 25.2,
 "locationPrecision": "region",
 "lon": 55.27,
 "media": [],
 "namedLocation": null,
 "operationalEffects": [],
 "outcome": [],
 "place": "Dubai",
 "plainSummary": {},
 "publisherMedia": [],
 "reportTiming": null,
 "review": "editor",
 "revision": 3,
 "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 airport operator gave a window of 10:13–10:45 UAE local time, a 32-minute restriction. Reuters’ broad headline about grounding flights should not override that narrower operator description. The National adds a separate flight-tracking observation: it reported a 52-minute average delay and traffic landing and departing again at 10:45. A delay estimate and a restriction window are different measures. They must not be added together or treated as evidence of a longer closure.",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2019-02-15",
   "source": 1,
   "text": "Airport departures suspended after suspected drone activity; traffic resumes that morning."
  },
  {
   "date": "2019-02-15",
   "source": 1,
   "text": "The National reports flight-tracking evidence of resumed traffic and a 52-minute average delay, a different measure from the 32-minute departure restriction."
  }
 ],
 "title": "Suspected drone activity suspends Dubai airport departures",
 "unknown": "The object, operator and exact number of delayed or cancelled flights remain unestablished. The sources do not supply the underlying flight-tracking sample for independently recomputing the reported average. The restriction’s 32 minutes and the reported 52-minute average delay are not additive quantities. No injury or damage is inferred.",
 "updatedAt": "2026-10-28",
 "windowBasis": null,
 "windowEnd": null,
 "windowStart": null
}