Drones over gatwick..

chaparral · 23 Dec 2018 at 18:56

Em3bbs said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1076874388761440260

Police tell BBC News they “cannot discount the possibility that there may have been no drone at all”.

I don't know what worst out of

1) There was no drone all
2) That there was a drone and the police couldn't do a dam thing about it..

LeMson · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:02

Just a fat pigeon then lol

Resident · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:13

Birmingham Airport now closed due to "ATC fault" ......

danoliver1 · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:21

So glad I dont travel at xmas.

IronWarrior · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:32

https://twitter.com/x/status/1076878205305475072

Apparently the police have found a damaged drone. Now wait for the government to announce it is of a Russian design, or the software has been traced to the GRU. Incoming ******** alert. #dronegate

ColdAsIce · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:37

Absolute embarrassment. What happened to the sighting made from the Air tower?

labbby · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:41

I think Gatwick airport and the authorities are going to find a lot of damaged drones in the area.. I think they are going to get trolled big time.

Tin foil time.. anyone think Birmingham Airport ‘ATC fault’ is more a case of we have a drone flying overhead but we best not admit it :eek:

kitch9 · 23 Dec 2018 at 19:59

labbby said:
I think Gatwick airport and the authorities are going to find a lot of damaged drones in the area.. I think they are going to get trolled big time.

Tin foil time.. anyone think Birmingham Airport ‘ATC fault’ is more a case of we have a drone flying overhead but we best not admit it

They might be trying to cover up a much more serious threat to avoid panic.

Something is afoot methinks.

Dunks · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:00

Tin foil hat time, but what if the security services needed to redirect all planes landing at Gatwick for an identified threat?

Rroff · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:04

labbby said:
I think Gatwick airport and the authorities are going to find a lot of damaged drones in the area.. I think they are going to get trolled big time.

Tin foil time.. anyone think Birmingham Airport ‘ATC fault’ is more a case of we have a drone flying overhead but we best not admit it

Supposedly computer system problem with the increased traffic partly due to time of year and dealing with the knock on effect of Gatwick closures. Or so that is the story...

Akagi · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:11

Dunks said:
Tin foil hat time, but what if the security services needed to redirect all planes landing at Gatwick for an identified threat?

Our security services are incapable of doing such things. If something happened we would have got the "Yeah well we knew about it, but we don't have the manpower to watch every single terror suspect"

h4rm0ny · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:13

Malevolence said:
Don't want to be 'that guy', but the Normans carried kite shields. Those chaps look like they're carrying Norse/Saxon shields.

I suspect their accourtments are accurate and the mistake is mine in calling them Normans!

Django x2 · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:23

mmj_uk said:
Like Trappi$t says now they have an arrest on their record for a major internationally reported crime, when the police could have easily done basic investigation and realised they had nothing to do with it, without rushing in heavy handed and arresting them.

No they don't. Stop posting complete nonsense

dowie · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:24

Django x2 said:
No they don't. Stop posting competec nonsense

Are you saying they were not arrested?

LabR@t · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:36

labbby said:
I think Gatwick airport and the authorities are going to find a lot of damaged drones in the area.. I think they are going to get trolled big time.

Tin foil time.. anyone think Birmingham Airport ‘ATC fault’ is more a case of we have a drone flying overhead but we best not admit it

Exactly my thoughts

jakedude182 · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:36

i'm so glad my flight yesterday morning was only delayed by about 40 mins they've done so well at re routing flights and lining up them coming in i'll give them that.

danoliver1 said:
So glad I dont travel at xmas.

But at the same time would i fly near xmas again, hell no

LabR@t · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:37

Dunks said:
Tin foil hat time, but what if the security services needed to redirect all planes landing at Gatwick for an identified threat?

They use stansted for that type of event.

jakedude182 · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:47

GGizmo · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:50

Now apparently the cops are saying there wasn't a drone.

Which is interesting as I heard a few days ago the footage the media was using wasnt of the actual drone at Gatwick. It was some generic random video.

labbby · 23 Dec 2018 at 20:59

BowdonUK said:
Now apparently the cops are saying there wasn't a drone.

Which is interesting as I heard a few days ago the footage the media was using wasnt of the actual drone at Gatwick. It was some generic random video.

Link of them saying this ?

If that is the case it opens the door to all sorts