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Police are exploring "a number of lines of inquiry", including environmental activism and "high-end criminal behaviour". |
Well...it's back again... |
Originally Posted by possibleconsequences
(Post 10341573)
Well...it's back again...
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There doesn't appear to be anything landing or taking off from Gatwick currently.
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Aircraft being told delay not determined. FFS :mad: |
FR24 showing a few holding Dave, nothing on final approach.
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Breaking News on BBC TV are saying flights again suspended due to further Drone activity. No details but citing Reuter’s as their source. |
Actual BBC words “due to suspected drone sighting near runway “ |
I get the feeling this was expected. I hope measures are in place now to find and deal with the culprit.
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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... |
Eurocontrol stating " Another drone sighted resulting in a 0-rate initially until 21:00 UTC.
High delays." |
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. |
Confirms my suspicion that the windy weather today helped Gatwick get lucky for a few hours. Now the wind's died down, the drone is back....
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Originally Posted by Alderney
(Post 10341645)
Confirms my suspicion that the windy weather today helped Gatwick get lucky for a few hours. Now the wind's died down, the drone is back....
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. |
Looks like Gatwick has opened again. Aurigny just took off, headed for Guernsey.
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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. |
Would a drone strike be any worse than a birdstrike?
LGW and other airports seem to host sizeable bird populations with few serious mishaps and no blanket closures... |
Having had a few birdstrikes in my time, I would say yes. Think of the difference of cutting a piece of chicken relative to a piece of very burnt toast. |
Originally Posted by *Zwitter*
(Post 10341712)
Would a drone strike be any worse than a birdstrike?
LGW and other airports seem to host sizeable bird populations with few serious mishaps and no blanket closures... |
Basics
Originally Posted by 737er
(Post 10341719)
Put drones in the hands of the general public, What could go wrong? How could anyone see this coming? 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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