Low Flying Plane over city

Poxyshamrock · 04-10-2006 6:01pm #1

For the Past week now there's been a plane flying over the city, not the usual coonagh plane, its alot bigger. Does anyone know what it is? (well i know it's a plane, but who owns it?) Is it belong to the Army?

1huge1 · 04-10-2006 6:28pm

ah its the army checking up on moyross

jbkenn · 04-10-2006 6:35pm

Poxyshamrock wrote:

For the Past week now there's been a plane flying over the city, not the usual coonagh plane, its alot bigger. Does anyone know what it is? (well i know it's a plane, but who owns it?) Is it belong to the Army?

GASU, Garda Air Support Unit
Britten-Norman Defender 4000, BN 2T-4S
http://www.garda.ie/angarda/gasu/defender.html

jbkenn

hobie · 04-10-2006 9:22pm

that's the one ...... heavilly armed and ready for action ..... so don't mess with it !!!! .....

ps. if the mods go after me on this one I'm going home ....

RapierX · 05-10-2006 5:58am

what good is a plane a few hundred feet in the air going to do?

bullets · 05-10-2006 8:04am

Cool its kitted out with fancy optics.
wonder how good they are.

From Looking at pics taken from aircraft from WWII the detail is amazing and would
have prvided great info ..... imagaine Now the 21st Century with IR and other
great techy stuff. The Garda could gather some great info.

As per the link already provided by jbkenn:

Deployment of the GASU

Garda Aircraft may be deployed to incidents in the following circumstances,

* An Immediate threat to life.
* Incidents of crime, terrorism or of national importance.
* Immediate threat of serious public disorder.
* A task, which will lead to the immediate prevention or detection of crime.
* To gather evidence and to prevent or detect crime or to avert a serious public disorder.
* To gather information on and deal with incidents relating to Crime, Public disorder and traffic related matters.

lasno · 05-10-2006 8:07am

This is not just any plane. It is equipped with an array of electronic equipment for visual and audio surveillance. There are plans to add equipment that will allow information gathered to be downloaded in real time to Garda control and/or units on the ground. This may have happened already.
Its full capability is not in the public domain for obvious reasons.

motormouthmable · 05-10-2006 10:55am

Bertie A. is due to arrive in Moyross on Friday. Maybe they are checking the scene?!

http://www.limerickpost.ie/dailynews.elive?id=7314&category=Daily-Thu

Delphi91 · 08-10-2006 6:20pm

motormouthmable wrote:

Bertie A. is due to arrive in Moyross on Friday. Maybe they are checking the scene?!

Just saw it flying around about an hour ago.....

1huge1 · 08-10-2006 7:16pm

saw it yesterday above howleys quay (didnt spell that right...)
yay im part of the gang now

motormouthmable · 08-10-2006 7:56pm

1huge1 wrote:

yay im part of the gang now

did ye noticed the new dress code? you have to wear black woollen/fleece gloves! the cool guys from the island field are all wearing this now!

limerick_man · 09-10-2006 1:14pm

I saw the thing flying over Punches Cross yesterday

BobTheBeat · 10-10-2006 6:12pm

Its flight path from/to shannon is not far from where I live and it always seemed to turn just above my house. Took out the scope the other night and had a look at it, its the one in the photo alright.

It flys pretty slowly, so it can get a good view of whats going on below.

hobie · 10-10-2006 6:37pm

Its flight path from/to shannon is not far from where I live and it always seemed to turn just above my house. Took out the scope the other night and had a look at it, its the one in the photo alright.

did you see the 'Doggie' ......

Poxyshamrock · 10-10-2006 9:51pm

From what i saw it seemed to land in coonagh the past couple of nights!

bushy... · 10-10-2006 10:26pm

Wonder how long before someone has a paranoia overload and uses it for target practice ?

1huge1 · 11-10-2006 8:43pm

dont give ppl ideas you never know who could be reading cough cough mr squid

NewsWire · 11-10-2006 10:31pm

ah shur , it's no secret that the Garda helicopter was fired on once or twice while over either southill or Moyross there not too long ago.

BobTheBeat · 12-10-2006 1:01pm

hobie wrote:

did you see the 'Doggie' ......

Hehee, I threw him a bonio and a squeez toy, got a vented chest in return.He's a good shot!

hobie · 12-10-2006 5:18pm

Our local coal yard also sells push bikes ...... they have an Alsation who takes over the place after closing time .....

I gave the owner a blown up copy of the Doggie photo above ..... he was delighted with it and put it up in his Customer's office .....

Low Flying Plane over city

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