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Lamplighter55 Posted at 4-16 15:33
Watched the programme - don't bother, just sensationalist low grade reportage done in the vox-pop docu-drama style. I'm sure it was entertaining for all the delayed passengers to relate their story - 'Look Mum we're on TV now!'. All talk about 'attack' and 'threat' then more intercut clips of irate passengers - pregnant woman, kids going to Lapland etc. Basically the story had no more information than what was already known - so nothing new apart from some vague speculation that the 'attacks' were done by someone with a grudge against the airport. All a lot of hoopla and nothing of substance - much like the original 'drone sightings'. A programme designed to make the general public even more 'anti-drones'. Just irritating.
I liked the bit where the old couple were driving past at night and noticed the drone 'with big arms' being flown by the pilot as they drove past and reported it to the police. Yeah, like someone who is committing a serious criminal offence will be operating their drone at the side of a busy road... Some people need to at least use their imagination when making up crap - he did say that their 'story' was dropped by the Police though so why include it in the programme as he spent five minutes dramatising their experience which was clearly a load of BS. It was very unfairly weighted against drones - about three minutes of the half hour covered the positives of them.
This was, IMO, either 1/ an inside job - a disgruntled employee who may have been fired looking to get one over on them 2/ no drone was there in the first place and used to cover up a major default in the airport systems and they didn't want to shell out millions in compensation to 140,000 passengers and suffer the embarrassment and high profile resignations that would follow or 3/ it was government led to help clear the air of hobbyists and small business ops in readiness for bigger business like Amazon deliveries. Not to mention some companies made several million out of installing anti drone hardware there...
We live in a country that has trident nuclear subs and missiles, the SAS, MI5 and MI6 and one of the most advanced and oldest armed services on the planet, including the RAF and they expect me to believe that my 16 year old nephew can walk into an Apple Store, buy a drone and ground one of the biggest airports in the world for days without being caught... Whatever! |
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