Did you know that in the UK right now, one man with a drone has managed to single-handedly shut down the second busiest airport in the country for over 10 hours straight? Despite more than 20 units from the British police hunting for him, nobody has managed to find this absolute madman yet, let alone stop him.
To give you an idea of how big of an incident this is, 10,000 people were effected as a result of this last night and 110,000 passengers and 760 flights are due to use the airport over the course of today.
Some guy keeps flying a drone around the airport so the planes can't take off due to safety reasons, and planes due to land at the airport are being diverted elsewhere because, again, it's not safe for them to land.
People on planes which have had their landings diverted to other airports are not being allowed to leave the planes. Presumably the pilots will fly them back to Gatwick once (if?) the drone operator is caught.
>Gatwick Airport’s runway remains closed and all flights are currently suspended following reports of drones flying over Gatwick’s airfield last night and this morning. There is significant disruption at Gatwick today as a result of what appears to be a deliberate attempt to disrupt flights.
>We are extremely disappointed that passengers are being affected by this, especially at such an important time of year. We are prioritising the welfare of those at the airport by deploying staff into our terminals to look after people as best we can.
>We are working hard with our airlines to get information to passengers but would advise anyone booked onto flights from Gatwick, or meeting arriving passengers, not to travel to the airport without checking the status of the flight with their airline or on our website first.
>We apologise for the continued inconvenience, but the safety of all passengers and staff is our first priority.
David Campbell
British police can find two Russian spies, who poisoned another Russian ex-spy, but they are failing to find some madman with remote controlled toy
Aiden Hill
It's not easy to trace radio signals. Plus it's apparently an industrial sized drone.
Gabriel King
shotguns are pretty effective against drones
Christopher Thomas
It's pretty high up and there's worries about firing randomly into the air. What they need is one of those drone jammer guns. Some of them are manufactured in the UK, so I don't see why they don't have one anyway
Dylan Young
Why don't they shoot down the drone?
Joshua Thompson
Police are too sissy to do it in case someone gets hit by a stray bullet.
Wyatt Diaz
Pretty sure Schiphol has special AA for drones now
Matthew Campbell
Inb4 it's Russians
Sebastian Bennett
Just bring out a fucking AA gun or just throw a web on it from a helicopter.
Carter Powell
Four airports here are on heightend alert, due to apparent reconnoitre attempts at the Stuttgart airport. Coincidence?
that's why you use a shotgun. bird shot pellets are so light you don't have to worry about shit getting harmed by it falling
Oliver Jones
Yeah and a British company made drone detection radars
Jeremiah Campbell
Our FSB can get onto your ass within a hour if you enter a no-fly zone. Koreans had no troubles literally catching drones with drones of their own during Olympics. Seriously, this shit is either massively overblown, or your security are incompetent hacks.
Kayden Robinson
they will fine/sue his ass into oblivion when theyll get their hands on him. easy money desu
Thomas Morales
cant they just revoke his drone license?
Kevin Sanders
Do you know everything that goes up fall down then? With the same velocity it reached on the first place? Shooting in the air is stupid af if your chances are this low.
>10,000 people were effected as a result of this last night and 110,000 passengers and 760 flights are due to use the airport over the course of today The power of zoomer terrorism.
The airport is saying that it's going to take them days to recover from the chaos this guy has caused. Do you really think whoever is doing this possesses anywhere near the amount of wealth required for them to recoup the losses they've incurred (and are going to continue incurring for days even after he's caught) by suing him?
Elijah Moore
That's not how it works and falling birdshot from a shotgun is not dangerous at all. At a dove shoot they often encircle the field and you get pelted with birdshot all day, it's not painful and is like tiny hail or freezing rain.
Aiden Long
its the russians poisoning air with zyklon ABCDEFG
Luke Miller
I-is that what I think it is?
Jace Howard
Bet you it's Heathrow shills
Aiden Jones
Just say it is russia and demand few millions in reparations then. Everything these days is russia fault.
>I feel like this is more than just a prank and that whoever is doing it must have a grudge of some sort against the airport. they're noisy and drive house prices down, so it could be an angry homeowner
Logan Flores
>be brittish >get DRONED
Jack King
>angry homeowner There's a 99% chance that airport has been there longer than the homeowner though.
My bro was gonna fly from Copenhagen>Munich>Newark, but he forgot to do some paperwork and had to book another flight, this time he chose Copenhagen>Gatwick>Newark and now he's stuck there :^)
Blake Young
I'd be shocked if there weren't.
Blake Price
but there's no airlines that fly Gatwick-Newark
Caleb Moore
Maybe he chose another destination nearby then. I know for sure that he was originally gonna fly to Newark but had to book another flight because he forgot the ESTA thing, then he ended up in Gatwick
Asher Parker
brb ordering a drone
Nathaniel Wright
Maybe they are using it to gather a large amount of people in one area. KABOOOOOOOM!
Carson Turner
How long will it be before someone uses a drone to deliver a bomb? The ramifications of this are pretty scary desu.
Don't think "remote controlled toy" think the sort of think the military uses as practice targets or artillery spotters. More of a small plane than a fly with your iPhone helicopter.
Jonathan Phillips
ffs, our airports have counter-drones or hunting birds to take care of shit like this. Wth are you doing Britain?!
Army has been called in now and is setting up "specialist equipment".
>When asked how the armed forces would assist, Mr Williamson responded: "Sadly at this moment it's not something we can actually reveal but the armed forces have a range of unique capabilities and this isn't something we would usually deploy but we are there to assist and do everything we can so that they are in a position to open the airport at the earliest opportunity."
Charles Garcia
Don't be so naive.
Adrian Howard
Don't derail the thread.
Owen King
Why don't they just use their own drone to take down the drone?
Bentley Martinez
Don't be so paranoïd.
Gabriel Harris
probably just gonna shoot it down normally but don't want to admit it as they could have done it ages ago.
Justin Thomas
>international spy scandal amid political tensions >not taking things at face value is being paranoid Lol
Easton Perez
He's not being paranoid, he's being a Russian expat. Ignore him. Your time would be better spent trying to argue with a brick wall.
>Army has been called in >specialist equipment what the fuck
Caleb Fisher
Birdshot is like tiny disks, it isnt very arrow dynamic. As it's going forward its pushed by a plastic wad tbut it spreads out the farther it goes separating from the wad.
Jeremiah Young
>inb4 it's a government falseflag so they can push through some bullshit legislation that furhters the brittish police state
