Originally Posted by
Training Risky
I am proud to work at the world’s busiest single-use rwy (at present!) airport and we are all gutted that a couple of drones have ruined everyone’s xmas.
Touring the terminals I have noticed little to none aggression from pax and many project workers like myself have volunteered to help the ops team manage the displaced pax.
Current list of potential Bandits are:
Anti-gatwick expansion lobby groups.
Bored teenagers with mad ECM spoofing skills.
The EU Commission seeking to undermine British industry.
Islamic State.
The Russian GRU.
The Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army - model aircraft division!
Well given the length of time it’s been going on, imho it’s clearly more than some scroats from the wrong end of town, and has the hallmarks of a deliberate operation. My money would be on something linked back to Moscow or given the current news, something related to BREXIT trying to show what they consider to be an impact of a no deal exit by fouling aviation.
The real issue now is that given the widespread news coverage we’re ripe for copycat incidents anytime anybody wants to make a point, and it would be easy to do it across multiple sites. Can you imagine a coordinated UAV incident across all the London airports?