Andy Onchan Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Vlad The Impaler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 18 hours ago, La Colombe said: Oh! I wonder who it was then? Arrested Couple Freed Without Charge Possibly nobody. Police now saying there may never have been a drone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadAsHell Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I assume there was a terrorist threat, Birmingham and Heathrow also had 'issues'. It happened last year as well, multiple airports having various technical problems at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIchard Britten Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I bet there are some confused Gammons out there... "Gah I bet it was bloody Moslim teerarists!!!!!!!" "White folk? Gah bloody runway protesters"""" "Wasn't them? Gah bloody someone else!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul's got wright Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Shouldnt drones have an automatic shut off if they try to enter military or forbidden airspace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 1 hour ago, wrighty said: Possibly nobody. Police now saying there may never have been a drone. Fake news a la Vlad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asitis Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 7 hours ago, paul's got wright said: Shouldnt drones have an automatic shut off if they try to enter military or forbidden airspace? I think they do, at least the expensive ones, but I guess for the techies amongst us its not a big deal to disable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 10 hours ago, wrighty said: Possibly nobody. Police now saying there may never have been a drone. You do have to feel sorry for those people. No evidence at all and now there might not even have been drones that they didn’t put up over Gatwick either. Sounds sort of like mass hysteria to me. Some weird belief on flimsy evidence took hold and probably cost Gatwick £20M and pissed off hundreds of thousands of travelers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Backtracking on that now, apparently, claiming there were 37 sightings between 21-23 Dec. Feel sorry for the arrested and now released couple though, although they've been very quick to run to the Press. Big compo to be duly sought, methinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxy Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Its been claimed that there were reports of UFO's and that it wasn't drones at all? You can tell it's a UFO as it has a red circle round it.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 On 12/24/2018 at 6:42 PM, Non-Believer said: Backtracking on that now, apparently, claiming there were 37 sightings between 21-23 Dec. Feel sorry for the arrested and now released couple though, although they've been very quick to run to the Press. Big compo to be duly sought, methinks? heard on the radio today that the keystone cops are saying that some of the drone sightings were probably the drones the police were using to look for the other drones. you really couldn't make this stuff up. they need to understand that some of these drones can have a range of 4- 5 miles out the box, scratching in hedge bottoms around the actual airport was a waste of time but at least they looked like they were doing something for the cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 8 hours ago, WTF said: heard on the radio today that the keystone cops are saying that some of the drone sightings were probably the drones the police were using to look for the other drones. you really couldn't make this stuff up. they need to understand that some of these drones can have a range of 4- 5 miles out the box, scratching in hedge bottoms around the actual airport was a waste of time but at least they looked like they were doing something for the cameras. Which police force oversees Gatwick? Is it the Keystone Cops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 13 hours ago, Neil Down said: Which police force oversees Gatwick? Is it the Keystone Cops? Sussex. And they’ve used drones at LGW for policing purposes for several years now. I won’t expand on what for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Doughnuts and coffee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 45 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: Sussex. And they’ve used drones at LGW for policing purposes for several years now. I won’t expand on what for. Rhetorical question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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