Drone at gatwick strands 350,000 people.

[woodview 10]

1 hour ago, Broakham said:

It was a comment on the OPs assertion of dereliction of duty by the government.  The security measures at a commercial airport are not the responsibility of either a Tory government or a Labour one. It was just another feeble attempt at petty political point-scoring.  

Ok, sorry,  I've re-read and get what you mean. The point of the thread was to blame 'the tories' , sounds similar to Rick in The Young Ones blaming Thatcher for everything.

It needs sorting as quick as possible,  and adding to the list of things that strange twisted people can do to disrupt the lives of everyday people.

 

[Phanerothyme 12]

1 hour ago, tinfoilhat said:

Do what Dutch do get freakin' eagles to take down these drones.

They've pretty much abandoned that because of the risk to the Eagles from rotor blades spinning at 5-10,000 rpm

This was a concerted effort to shut down the airport by people using custom built autonomous drones, not the commercially available camera drones offered by manufacturers like DJI and Parrot.

I would guess it was a trial run cum response test by a foreign power.

[stylefree 14]

Hmmmm

Could it be the Russians?

 

 

[Anna B 1,414]

3 hours ago, Broakham said:

It was a comment on the OPs assertion of dereliction of duty by the government.  The security measures at a commercial airport are not the responsibility of either a Tory government or a Labour one. It was just another feeble attempt at petty political point-scoring.  

 It is the responsibility of the government to make sure the law is obeyed.  Mainland security is the responsibility of the government.  They could bring it in under terrorist laws quickly enough if it suited them. The government can put legislation in place that the airports must obey, just like health and safety laws. 

 

They can also make sure all drones over a certain size / power, are licenced or at the very least registered. With their growing use there are going to be many problems ahead which will need to be addressed. They can start by knowing who has them. 

[staninoodle 175]

2 hours ago, stylefree said:

Hmmmm

Could it be the Russians?

 

 

Well we better not blast em out of the sky,otherwise Putin says hel launch nukes,he reckons were installing ballastic missiles with conventional warheads,but his software cant dtect the difference,so hel launch nukes as a 1st defence,worrying times cheers trump

[L00b 441]

8 hours ago, Phanerothyme said:

They've pretty much abandoned that because of the risk to the Eagles from rotor blades spinning at 5-10,000 rpm

This was a concerted effort to shut down the airport by people using custom built autonomous drones, not the commercially available camera drones offered by manufacturers like DJI and Parrot.

I would guess it was a trial run cum response test by a foreign power.

I take it that’s been reported somewhere (not seen it yet), and building those would  not be your Sunday D-I-Yer amateur hour kind of job: Amazon, DHL and others with large-scale delivery requirements and highly-resources, have been spending obscene amounts of money researching and engineering autonomous (delivery) drones in the past couple of years.

 

Makes sense as well, since a remote teleoperation could be tracked and maybe even shut down or hijacked by police/army forces on site.

 

I’m loathe to give in to conspiracy thoughts, but with Putin displeased at a lot of stuff atm, the Chinese yet again caught snooping online at U.K. (and other) government and EU cables, a power vacuum fast developing in the Middle East on the back of the US pullback, and lastly Mattis jacking it in...there are a lot of potential actors with a vested interest in making geopolitical statements, like severely disrupting an air travel hub (which, as statements go, is pretty benign, but no less significant).

 

It’s not as if Novichok didn’t happen.

 

 

Edited December 22, 2018 by L00b

[davyboy 19]

It has been reported that a man and woman have been arrested over this. 

[El Cid 220]

9 minutes ago, davyboy said:

It has been reported that a man and woman have been arrested over this. 

Strange that 2 people are involved?

[Halibut 12]

5 minutes ago, El Cid said:

Strange that 2 people are involved?

Not really. My question would be why? What were they hoping to achieve?

Given all the people who've been massively inconvenienced* I hope they're brought before a court and given an appropriately stiff sentence.

 

* I heard a woman on the radio yesterday, extremely distressed and upset having missed the funeral of a close friend in Cyprus. I'm sure there are many more tales of people who've had their plans ruined and incurred lots of extra expenditure.

[Broakham 10]

3 hours ago, El Cid said:

Strange that 2 people are involved?

I think it was reported at one time that they believed that two drones were being flown.

It is also interesting that the last sighting of a drone was 'around' 10pm and that the arrests were "around' 10pm. Coincidence or good work by the authorities?

[kidley 48]

30 minutes ago, Broakham said:

I think it was reported at one time that they believed that two drones were being flown.

It is also interesting that the last sighting of a drone was 'around' 10pm and that the arrests were "around' 10pm. Coincidence or good work by the authorities?

it would have been the army that would have found them, and arrested by the police,

once the army was involved it was only a matter of time. Thank God

[rogets 141]

Just imagine next summer

 

Bored kids who live near airports setting drones off and bringing the entire country to a standstill

 

The authorities calling it a major terror incident caused by 3 spotty bored 14 year olds

 

And then giving them names like the Doncaster gang, or the Tamworth Two.