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[Travel] Drones spotted at LGW.









SUIYHP

The King's Gull
Apr 16, 2009
1,908
Inside Southwick Tunnel
could a drone even bring a plane down ? worst case would be an engine malfunction much like a large bird could do. In those instances the plane just lands with its other engines. Seems a bit over the top

I’m no aviation expert but these planes are flying pretty regularly no? The damage could be very expensive to fix. A drone strike would inevitably ground the plane whilst they checked for any potential damage, meaning that if that plane was scheduled to take off you’d have to rebook the passengers onto another flight. This doesn’t even consider the fact that in a worst case scenario that plane is out of action for weeks as it goes through expensive engine repairs. Passengers are upset because they miss their flight, airline company is upset because lots of money is lost and the entire airport is upset because of disrupted services. All of it could have been entirely preventable if the cockwomble didn’t play with his toy near the airport in the first place...
 










vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,273






SeagullTim

Boomer Sooner
Apr 22, 2006
2,591
Brighton
Some train companies are offering journeys on production of boarding passes. LNER are according to Twitter.

Was supposed to fly out of Edinburgh at 6:25 and with only offers of rerouting to Stansted and Bristol, this has been massive from LNER. Rattling through the northern countryside now. Thameslink will also honour boarding passes to get people to Gatwick from Kings Cross.
 


pb21

Well-known member
Apr 23, 2010
6,688
How can someone still be doing this?
Started at 9 last night (ish) I think and still yanking the Airport/Police's chain 18 hours (ish) later.
The net must be closing in but I think if I was doing this I'd maybe fly it for long enough to get my point across and then bugger off before getting caught.
18hrs is showing either dedication or stupidity.

Or confidence they wont be caught and/or brought to justice.
 


Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
NSC Patron
Oct 27, 2003
21,526
The arse end of Hangleton
Airports twitter page still saying closed until 4. Where did you see that it was closed until 7?

Definately being reported as 7pm now. And it's getting dark, if the police don't find the operator in the next hour I'd suggest the cat and mouse game will continue throughout the night.
 




Arthritic Toe

Well-known member
Nov 25, 2005
2,485
Swindon
It does seem a bit odd that this cat-and-mouse game is still going on. And I find it hard to believe the police can’t shoot the thing down, or jam it somehow. If you can shoot Brazilian electricians on a busy train you can surely fire a bullet at drone? And as I’ve said before this threat has been around for ages and is applicable to all airports...why hasn’t it happened elsewhere? Lots of questions?

I guess no one has thought of it, and the ability to paralyse an airport in this simple manner has been overlooked. Remember, before 9/11, no one had hijacked planes and used them as weapons. The fact that you could access the flight-deck relatively easily and with minimal weapons, had been overlooked because it had never happened and no one had really thought of it.
 


MJsGhost

Oooh Matron, I'm an
NSC Patron
Jun 26, 2009
5,026
East
Hmmm... I assume, these days, that the technology is there to remotely operate these things from hundreds of miles away. Fly it back to some rented garage, onto a charger, and back out the next night...
Apparently the reason they don't shoot it down is because the bullets could end up anywhere. Really?

If they miss, where do you think the bullet goes?

It’s the same principle for armed police in every other scenario though.

When firing up (i.e. into the air at the drone), one can't know where the bullet will go should one miss.

Not the same as a 'typical' scenario where they might fire at a person and be able to see what's behind them in case they miss (i.e. normally a wall or vehicle if in a city, or an open field if out in the sticks...).

I'm no expert, but I presume they can't take a shot unless they can see where the bullet would go (and that it'd be safe) in case they miss.

Latest reports suggest there are now snipers on site, so we'll see!

There are a few in my office keeping track of progress as they have flights booked this evening - what a sh|t situation for people just wanting to fly off to visit their families...

Good luck with your journey HT
 








Deportivo Seagull

I should coco
Jul 22, 2003
5,468
Mid Sussex
I also think it's a bit OTT. If there's only one drone I'd have thought the chances of it entering an engine are about as low as a goose doing soon.

I think that at 700+ flights a day the odds are are a lot higher than you think. Also birds don’t deliberately try to fly into planes.
 




MJsGhost

Oooh Matron, I'm an
NSC Patron
Jun 26, 2009
5,026
East
When firing up (i.e. into the air at the drone), one can't know where the bullet will go should one miss.

Not the same as a 'typical' scenario where they might fire at a person and be able to see what's behind them in case they miss (i.e. normally a wall or vehicle if in a city, or an open field if out in the sticks...).

I'm no expert, but I presume they can't take a shot unless they can see where the bullet would go (and that it'd be safe) in case they miss.

Latest reports suggest there are now snipers on site, so we'll see!

There are a few in my office keeping track of progress as they have flights booked this evening - what a sh|t situation for people just wanting to fly off to visit their families...

Good luck with your journey HT

...basically, THIS: :thumbsup:

It isn't as it happens. Armed police are generally shooting at a target from above or horizontally, they can make a risk assessment of where any bullets will end up - that is an essential part of their training assessing the background. A bullet travelling horizontally will generally hit something or travel about 2000metres. Shooting upward, you have absolutely no idea where the trajectory will take a bullet, they can reach 10,000ft and wind means they can go anywhere. A falling bullet from height when it reaches its terminal velocity still has the potential to kill.
 








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