rogersix
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[Travel] Drones spotted at LGW.
- Thread starter AmexRuislip
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Looking like opening again
What if they're somehow found guilty of doing it 10 times in the last couple of days?
wehatepalace
Limbs
Just spoken to a mate who’s a copper at Gatwick, they’ve been told it’s being treated as a terrorist contingency......what ever that means
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est en Valenciennes..
Inside info (again)...
A dispatcher saw FIVE drones above a BA Flight just about to push off. Not sure if he/she had been on the sauce, but that's the info.
A dispatcher saw FIVE drones above a BA Flight just about to push off. Not sure if he/she had been on the sauce, but that's the info.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
it's a tricky one alright
what motive? absolutely baffled me
Objecting to a second runway? Carbon footprint of planes?
30 years at about now [emoji29]
Lawyer will convince the jury that the bullying they were subject to as a child, and the fact their mum didn't buy them new trainers left them emotionally unstable and the drone flying was a cry for help. They'll get a small fine (with time to pay, obviously) and some treatment, including a two week stay at a spa hotel in Cyprus
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
If someone in the control tower has been logging the exact times of each incident, it is possible to have 10 counts of the same charge.
rogersix
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all these diverted flights are burning a lot more fuel
It would be treated as the same offence. If you're clocked by two different speed cameras doing 100mph on the motorway, you don't charged twice. You could have two separate charges if they were at different airports but it would be very, very unusual to have two separate sentences running consecutively.
Well, that does change the sentencing. The police have been adamant that they're not treating it as terrorism: if they are, I think the maximum sentence is life imprisonment
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Poor WJA4101. Just passing over Carlisle on its way BACK to Glasgow. They left Glasgow at 16:12, flew down and circled over Hassocks a few times.
The passengers departed Toronto on Thursday, toured Wales and on to Scotland. Hope the passengers apreciate the tour they're getting.
The passengers departed Toronto on Thursday, toured Wales and on to Scotland. Hope the passengers apreciate the tour they're getting.
Perhaps not life but the ****ers deserve more than five years.
Da Man Clay
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Not quite. You’d struggle to argue that this is a continuation of the same offence as the drones have come down and gone back up. You certainly wouldn’t get a charge for each time it’s seen - but I would expect a charge for something like each day.
I think most of those hanging around at the airport and those poor sods on the Westjet flight as mentioned by [MENTION=21200]I remember the good times[/MENTION] will happily declare they have been terrorised. Good enough for me!!
That’s my thinking, specifically an anti Gatwick issue, with no where else targeted. I work with people who live in the rejigged flight paths over Uckfield/Crowborough/T.Wells/Lingfield, and apparently it’s the same west of Gatwick ... a mass loathing of Gatwick and the cocky Geordie CEO Wingate. Very organised middle-class protest organisations, firing off emails and letters complaining and more.
I have gently mentioned to some, that they too fly in and out of Gatwick far more than they used to.
nipped out in Shoreham an hour ago for a few liquid essentials, and noticed a lot of lights in the sky.
TBH, I know it's monumentally disruptive and upsetting for people what want/can afford to fly places, but I find it quite amusing how what's effectively a ****ing nerd with a remote control flying toy has spasticated half the country.
Taking back control! This country couldn't win a game of draughts let along anything serious or vaguely important.
TBH, I know it's monumentally disruptive and upsetting for people what want/can afford to fly places, but I find it quite amusing how what's effectively a ****ing nerd with a remote control flying toy has spasticated half the country.
Taking back control! This country couldn't win a game of draughts let along anything serious or vaguely important.
Out in 30 months in reality. Too short.
They’ll be pariahs for life though.