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Gatwick Chaos
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostUpdate: Situation still ongoing and flights disrupted while runway closed until at least 11am.
Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays - BBC News
Drone seen at 7am, ongoing since 9pm yesterday, so not just some kids or local numpties, too persistent.
Police still not tracked culprit(s) down. Shows a lack of preparedness for such an incident to not be resolved yet, giving others incentive to try similar.
Updated update: Around 10,000 passengers directly affected and other advised not to travel as planes grounded. Those opportunist taxi drivers charging e.g. £600 for a trip from Cardiff to London are going to do well out of the chaos as planes get diverted all over the place and people desperate to get to London for crimbo.
Two out of the three drone scares at Heathrow turned out to be actual police drones. Considering there are already anti- drone drones on the market, I am surprised that airports do not have them."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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It will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostIt will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.
110,000 people due to use Gatwick today. That's a lot of disrupted travel plans. Sat around airports for hours on end is soul destroying at the best of times.Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostPiss off you stupid cloggy twatComment
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostSurely consumer drones use a frequency for remote control that is not interfering with airports or aircraft so just jam that frequency around the airfield border.
Also, if planes are built to withstand bird strikes then surely a small plastic drone ain't going to do as much damage as a frozen turkey or whatever they use to test such things.
I therefore feel this is not a technical problem but more of typical governing/management slowness to implement workable solutions in practice. This incident should at least speed that up somewhat.
Strange that flights were suspended for a while at around 3am but when re-started at around 4am the drones came back, suggesting maliciousness or indeed terrorism.
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/previ...4525519804.mp4How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostIt will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.Comment
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