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     "ar": "سجلت FAA وقفاً للإقلاع لأسباب أمنية. ولا يثبت ذلك هوية مسيّرة أو معدات كشف.",
     "en": "The FAA recorded a security-related ground stop. This does not identify a drone or detection equipment.",
     "fa": "FAA توقف پرواز به دلایل امنیتی را ثبت کرد. این امر هویت پهپاد یا تجهیزات شناسایی را احراز نمی‌کند.",
     "ru": "FAA зафиксировала остановку вылетов по соображениям безопасности. Это не устанавливает наличие дрона или средств обнаружения.",
     "uk": "FAA зафіксувала зупинку вильотів з міркувань безпеки. Це не встановлює наявності дрона чи засобів виявлення."
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 "attribution": "No operator established in the selected reporting.",
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   "id": "ground-stop",
   "note": "FAA advisory independently establishes restriction; not drone identification.",
   "originId": "faa-san-advisory164-20260904",
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   "statement": "The FAA records a security-related ground stop."
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   "assessment": "supports",
   "axis": "drone",
   "claimant": "San Diego Airport spokesperson via NBC7, relayed by TechTimes",
   "id": "reported-objects",
   "note": "Explicitly secondhand spokesperson statement; no operational positions reproduced.",
   "originId": "san-airport-nbc7-20260904",
   "quote": "a drone and a weather balloon were observed near the airport",
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   "relay": "relayed",
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   "statement": "The airport spokesperson reportedly described drone and balloon sightings."
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 "date": "2026-09-04",
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 "evidence": "The FAA operational advisory is a primary record of the ground stop. TechTimes relays a San Diego airport spokesperson’s statement to NBC7 about drone and balloon sightings. FAA operations and the airport spokesperson are distinct origins for disruption; drone identification remains reported, not independently confirmed.",
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 "id": "san-diego-airport-drone-report-2026-09-04",
 "impact": "An FAA advisory records a ground-stop program for San Diego that afternoon, with arrival delays. This confirms an operational restriction, not the identity of every reported object or the cause of every delayed flight.",
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 "scope": "single",
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  {
   "family": "us-faa",
   "label": "FAA ATCSCC advisory164: San Diego ground stop",
   "published": "2026-09-04",
   "url": "https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=09042026&advn=164"
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  {
   "family": "techtimes",
   "label": "TechTimes: airport spokesperson via NBC7",
   "published": "2026-09-06",
   "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/326775/20260906/san-diego-drone-grounds-400-flights-labor-day-airports-have-no-detection-requirement.htm"
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 "summary": "San Diego International Airport experienced flight restrictions on 4 September 2026. Airport officials reportedly linked the disruption to sightings of a drone and a weather balloon; an FAA advisory independently records a security-related ground stop.",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-04",
   "source": 0,
   "text": "FAA security ground stop and reported airport drone/balloon sightings."
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 "title": "Drone report prompts flight restrictions at San Diego airport",
 "unknown": "The FAA advisory classifies the cause as security without naming a drone. The news article discusses a separate balloon; no assumption that every object was a drone. Its approximate onset/all-clear and aggregate delay totals are not adopted as exact incident times or drone-only effects. NBC page unavailable in web tool; ordinary GET returned an incomplete response, so no complete original NBC article read. TechTimes relay is explicit.",
 "updatedAt": "2026-10-17",
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