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Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

dTal wrote: post #50

Serious question - is there any actual evidence that there was ever a real drone? There are no available pictures of the supposed drone, which seems odd if it was 'buzzing the tower'. It also seems odd that it kept 'popping up' in random places, yet nobody managed to follow it with their own drone, or track it on radar. And now the police are arresting people with no connection to the incident and clearly still have…

Looks like few phone calls and twitter posts shut down an airport about as well as a drone. And the former strategy gets free amplification in the form of people misidentifying birds as drones

Re: Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'

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Post by rurban »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #82
clay_the_ripper wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering the same thing. Given the amount of press this generated, I still haven’t seen a photo of one of the drones which seems odd. Has anyone seen a photo?

The official story makes no sense at all. Why announce that you have arrested a couple of people if you have no hard evidence against them? Either this is all monumental incompetence, or the real story isn't being released. Coincidentally, Birmingham airport was shut for a couple of hours today after an air traffic control failure. If that's the end of the story, it's fair to assume there's no connection. If there's…

The "hard" evidence was that their neighbors saw them some month ago operating a drone in their backyard. So they called police. Who notified the press.

As suspected eco terrorist you would hardly operate from your backyard near the airport. But the brits do have surveillance cameras all over so they will find something sooner or later.

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