Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays

bobmac said:
And you can buy them in Currys
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Yes, and you don't have to spend 12 months glueing together a load of balsa wood, and then another 6 months repairing it after your first attempt to fly it crashed on take off. Not speaking from childhood experience or anything!!!! :oops:
 
pauljames87 said:
So like I said in the first place, drones far more effective. Anyone can use them. Can be piloted further away. Maxium disruption for minimum skill and effort.
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pauljames87 said:
Bit different. Drones can have cameras on them so can pilot them out of site.. I don’t suspect the little rc planes would do anywhere near the kind of damage when they fall out the air because they don’t hover like a drone which can remain in one place or suddenly assend 10 metres to avoid something
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Not talking of little rc planes. Rc planes the same price as a dji mavic drone would be very effective.

A couple of grand more and I could wipe out a small bungalow and its inhabitants with mini jet turbines.

Drones are mass marketed therefore popular. Anything popular and bad press will follow. Following that a fringe of people calling for bans and extreme regulation. Happens with everything.

Just one or two idiots. It’s happened before with other RC devices. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
larmen said:
And 12 hours later it is still all we know.
I know it isn’t technically our business, but I am curious if they got the right people, and what their motives might have been if it was then.
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In fairness, 12 hours in they possibly still don't know. If they were arrested late night they won't be interviewed until the morning, or possibly later, depending on waiting for solicitors, the results of the house search and possibly the interrogation of any computers or electronics. They'll also be sensitive to the danger of prejudicing any trial.

What has been released is that those arrested were a man of 47 and a woman of 54. IF they are they right people, they were certainly old enough to know better and I, like you, am curious as to their motives.
 
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I know, but we are an inpatient society, and other countries would be getting live updates via tweets from their ‘leader’ ;-)

OK, we are better of waiting for them to get the facts right.
 
Seems a strange demographic for the couple that have been arrested and so it'll be interesting to hear in the fullness of time what their motive was (if indeed they were the actual culprits and not merely connected in some other way)
 
Again, foil hat moment but having read about the couple they don’t seem the most obvious choice for this sort of thing.

He has a background in RC’s vehicles but not so much drones. Apparently she’s shown zero interest in any of it.

His boss claims it couldn’t have been him as he was at work etc.

Could well turn out that they were behind it however at this point I just don’t see it.
 
road2ruin said:
Again, foil hat moment but having read about the couple they don’t seem the most obvious choice for this sort of thing.

He has a background in RC’s vehicles but not so much drones. Apparently she’s shown zero interest in any of it.

His boss claims it couldn’t have been him as he was at work etc.

Could well turn out that they were behind it however at this point I just don’t see it.
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The guy's boss has said that he was at work from 7am to 5pm last Monday to Friday so it couldn't have been him that did it. Will be interesting to see how it all pans out.
 
I still think there were more people involved. For the drone to have been sighted as many times, there would have to have been more than one or someone on the ground changing batteries regularly. If the guy has an alibi from work it will make it hard to prove his involvement and I can't see a boss coming out to say he was working and risking his own position
 
The problem I have with the suspects identities being published, is that IF they are innocent, they will forever be associated with it, it will ruin their lives.

No smoke without fire some will say , but put yourselves in a position of being arrested for a high profile crime you didn’t do and your details being out there,
By all means release details once they have been charged, but it’s dangerous to do so before.

But if they are guilty, feed them to the wolves
 
PhilTheFragger said:
The problem I have with the suspects identities being published, is that IF they are innocent, they will forever be associated with it, it will ruin their lives.

No smoke without fire some will say , but put yourselves in a position of being arrested for a high profile crime you didn’t do and your details being out there,
By all means release details once they have been charged, but it’s dangerous to do so before.

But if they are guilty, feed them to the wolves
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Cliff Richard springs to mind :eek:
 
PhilTheFragger said:
The problem I have with the suspects identities being published, is that IF they are innocent, they will forever be associated with it, it will ruin their lives.

No smoke without fire some will say , but put yourselves in a position of being arrested for a high profile crime you didn’t do and your details being out there,
By all means release details once they have been charged, but it’s dangerous to do so before.

But if they are guilty, feed them to the wolves
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Isn’t it balance though, some people in some cases have come forward once they believe it is safe to do so, (ie Child abuse cases) or to stand up for the accussed with alibi’s etc.
I certainly believe in innocent till proven guilty, but sometimes there is a rather large grey area.
 
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