Drones threatening commercial a/c?
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Beeb reporting the Police have identified "persons of interest": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46649704
Hopefully it'll lead to someone's collar being felt...
Hopefully it'll lead to someone's collar being felt...
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It appears that the airfield closed again at about 17Z. RAM802, a B-763 from Casa was the first to go missed. They held for a while and then diverted to LHR.
WestJet 410 from Glasgow, another B-763, seems to have plenty of fuel and they are still holding but most of the other inbounds seem to be diverting.
WestJet 410 from Glasgow, another B-763, seems to have plenty of fuel and they are still holding but most of the other inbounds seem to be diverting.
Looks that way.
These buggers need locking up for life. From what I can see there was traffic on final - that makes it reckless in the extreme.
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Don't know what I did there but it doesn't seem to want to delete.
I'm with you windsock but that is old style policing - we must have the high tech solution now.
Again, if it is a man in a white van, he would be targetting another airfield now.
I reckon the perpetrator is within a very few miles of whichever end of Gatwick these sightings are occurring.
Funny that in these days of instant messaging etc. no one has posted a photo.
I'm with you windsock but that is old style policing - we must have the high tech solution now.
Again, if it is a man in a white van, he would be targetting another airfield now.
I reckon the perpetrator is within a very few miles of whichever end of Gatwick these sightings are occurring.
Funny that in these days of instant messaging etc. no one has posted a photo.
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Basics
We are a very advanced society, and when an "entity" gets extremely advanced it starts, somehow, missing the basics.
This is another example of missing one of the basics.
It is years that pilots have been expressing serious concerns around the danger of drones being in the wrong hands.
Nothing has been done until now.
We are all extremely lucky that "drones" have not been utilised by extreme organisations yet e.g. Daesh as the consequences of a clever and highly sophisticated drone attack are unimaginable.The disruptions at LGW are a minor event if compared to something much more serious like a drone terror attack. No need to provide examples of how deadly a terror related drone attack could be. The culprit is probably indirectly saving all of us from something much more sinister as from now on drones are on the various agencies' agendas as a priority, slightly late yes.
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Originally Posted by finncapt;,
I'm with you windsock but that is old style policing - we must have the high tech solution