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 Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: dave67  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 09:37

From Discover on Google https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-sussex-46623754
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Bandy  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 09:45

Dunno if it's sinister, or a childish prank, but someone's looking at jail time for this. Idiots.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 09:51

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: veteraneastender  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 13:36

Deliberate "enemy action" methinks.

Total numpties.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: widtink  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 14:12

Someone's in a lot of trouble... If they catch them.
Wouldn't mind a drone myself.
I have noticed a lot of them while out and about... The bridges are supposedly a no fly zone... But nobody seems to either know or care. Its dronetastic doon there.

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 14:30

or they have the required permissions to fly them ( i know its not the case!) got a mate who's job is drone filming and he requires permission from the airport as well as a form of Pilots licence for his work

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsclub  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 15:44

Really scuppers my day so far.
Trying to get home spent 5hrs at Gatwick this morning sat on the 0650 to Edinburgh
Then flight cancelled....
Then trooped of the plane and sent to passport control ??
“I have no passport”

Imagine the conversation!!

They then realise there are hundreds like me..
A driving license will do I’m then told.

My driving license has expired!

Imagine the next conversation!

A debacle

I hope to meet the drone flyer however I don’t think it’s drones....
Got a wee hunch when I saw the search regime that all is not quite what it seems

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 15:50

feel sorry for the tens of thousands of people who will be out of pocket, stuck where they don't want to be and insurance not covering trips at due to the circumstances.

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsclub  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 16:16

I can get home but some will be stuck and won’t get flights.
Good gesture by LNER offering anybody flying to Edinburgh who has a boarding pass will get a free seat on the train from kings cross.

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: sammer  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 20:57

Imagine if Corbyn was PM and this happened. The tabloids would have his guts for garters.

How on earth can a major airport be so susceptible to this kind of disruption? No doubt the Russian hackers will be blamed before long. Or maybe it's a warning shot to show our errant politicians the brute reality of military strength like occurred at Heathrow in 1974.

sammer

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: wetherby  
Date:   Thu 20 Dec 21:15

"Got a wee hunch when I saw the search regime that all is not quite what it seems"

Meaning what Londonparsclub?
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsfan  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 08:58

Gatwick has re-opened with limited flights. Gutting for all the folk who've been messed around. Glad you got sorted LPC.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 09:33

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsfan  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 10:02

There's no doubt something is a bit off with this but I doubt we'll ever know the truth.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Captain Desmond Fancey  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 10:05



It was Theresa all along !


The good old days
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsfan  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 10:12

Beat me to it I'd just seen that!
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 10:40

They ran out of Novichok.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: dave67  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 18:36

Flights at Gatwick have been suspended again due to a new "suspected drone sighting".

A spokeswoman for the UK's second biggest airport said: "We are just hearing a report of another drone sighting that we are investigating.

"As we look into it we have taken the precaution of suspending flights."

Aircraft have been circling above the area as they are currently unable to land. The sighting reportedly occurred at about 17:10 GMT.

The Ministry of Defence has not confirmed the sighting but Sussex Police said its officers were investigating.

Let`s try making it till Christmas
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Rastapari  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 19:07

Quick...exploit and exaggerate whilst the proles are watching...
**** this cesspit.

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: moviescot  
Date:   Fri 21 Dec 21:35

Wish everyone would stop droning on about it all. 😂
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsfan  
Date:   Sat 22 Dec 08:38

Man and a woman have been arrested.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: calpar  
Date:   Sat 22 Dec 10:37

Govt planned test
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: dave67  
Date:   Sun 23 Dec 19:32

Detectives hunting for the people behind the drone chaos that paralysed Gatwick airport have released the only two people they have arrested and declared them innocent.

Let`s try making it till Christmas
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Rastapari  
Date:   Sun 23 Dec 19:53

Quote:

dave67, Sun 23 Dec 19:32

Detectives hunting for the people behind the drone chaos that paralysed Gatwick airport have released the only two people they have arrested and declared them innocent.


Also being reported...police are now saying there may never have been a drone.
Training exercise to see how our meek and compliant public react to post Brexit flight chaos?

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: londonparsfan  
Date:   Sun 23 Dec 20:16

This whole thing just gets stranger and stranger.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: sammer  
Date:   Sun 23 Dec 22:24

The police have been made to look a bit stupid.
The army have apparently resolved the problem. (There are suspicions it might have been their drones.)

The public have been prepared for a Brexit government of emergency- with martial law optional- for 2019. Happy New Year.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks  
Date:   Sun 23 Dec 23:14

Haha, aye okay then.

And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: sammer  
Date:   Mon 24 Dec 21:55

TOWK,

I hope we can share a laugh in 2019.

There is a government emergency policy to deal with the backlash of Brexit/No Brexit. It is called Operation Tempera. On face value it is concerned with ensuring food and medical supplies are not blocked.

In reality, this is very serious indeed. For the army on the streets is a forerunner to the disintegration of the rule of law, and ultimately parliament. I hope to hear from you soon, before the internet is closed on grounds of Brexit security.
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Topic Originator: sammer  
Date:   Mon 24 Dec 22:00

Apologies, that should have read 'Operation Temperem.'

Make of hast what you will. Bjut the aristocratic landowning caste, represented by Rees-Mogg, see a potential in societal breakdown. They can either pick up the scraps, after the army has interned Corbyn. or run for the hills when Corbyn comes after the tax they have not been paying for the last 40 years.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks  
Date:   Mon 24 Dec 22:15

None of that is going to happen Sammer.

And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: red-star-par  
Date:   Mon 24 Dec 22:37

This time next year, the poor will be feasting on the carcasses of the rich
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: sammer  
Date:   Mon 24 Dec 23:28

TOWK,

Probably not. The UK is a place that has allowed the aristocracy to control the land for 400 years.

If this is not addressed by the populace, then they can look forward to a Happy New Year of serfdom If you cannot control the land then you cannot claim this country back. You become a serf yelping for his master.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: Grant  
Date:   Tue 25 Dec 14:50

Op Temperar isn't just about brexit sammer, it's been around for years and covers a wide range of possibilities and probabilitys.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Tue 25 Dec 15:53

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: OzPar  
Date:   Wed 26 Dec 00:02

Sammer, I trust that you will not be holding up Russia as a more equitable and fair alternative to the British system...

For if you do, I think it is fair to say that you are on extremely shaky ground.

:)
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: calpar  
Date:   Wed 26 Dec 17:28

heres hoping the general populace of Scotland finally waken up, and support the snp, transiently to win full independence, only then can we really start to have our say, and determine how we wish to live our lives

however I have mine doubts.

the UK is fkd
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Wed 26 Dec 22:33

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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: veteraneastender  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 09:23

"There is a government emergency policy to deal with the backlash of Brexit/No Brexit. It is called Operation Tempera"

It's an operational deployment devised to support police in a major terrorist incident, planned before EU membership referendum.

UK Special Forces in civilian dress have already been undercover assisting with survelliance etc. at potential threat scenarios.
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: calpar  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 09:32

Aye, cos every other oil rich nation has no income eh

Its not me thats deluded dude
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 10:12

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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 10:45

So you are saying that Westminster goverments have made huge, strategic blunders with their handling of Scotland's North Sea resources?

And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: renegade master  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 11:42

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Topic Originator: wee eck  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 15:19

Are we going to get this perverse argument again that Scotland having a big deficit as part of the UK is an argument AGAINST independence? When you see the GERS figures for all the 'regions' of the UK it's quite obvious that most of the wealth of the UK is concentrated in London and the South-east of England which makes it look like they are 'subsidising' the rest of the UK. That model must be the result of government policy. An independent Scotland wouldn't be following that model.

(Not sure how a thread on drones has morphed into one on independence!).
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 Re: Drones shut down gatwick
Topic Originator: widtink  
Date:   Thu 27 Dec 16:06

Lol it happens sometimes.
But if it continues to focus on political issues then the thread will be punted across to the politics forum.

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