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Heathrow departures halted due to drone.

  • 08-01-2019 7:10pm
    #1
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭


    Just breaking on BBC.

    BBC News - Heathrow airport: Drone sighting halts departures
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46803713

    Just watch ALL drones being outlawed in the near future due to this.


Comments

  • #2
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Is this an actual drone or merely the 'appearance' of a drone?


  • #3
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,073 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    False flag or drone equivalent?

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #4
    MaryBrosnan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 110 ✭✭MaryBrosnan


    Fierce mild weather.


  • #5
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    The disruption will be massive, some idiot trying to prove a point or have a joke.


  • #6
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    That time of week already.. you don't see the days going


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  • #7
    frag420
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    It’s obviously a UFO...until it’s identified!


  • #8
    DontThankMe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭DontThankMe


    Damn drones destroying da departures der


  • #9
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    North runway closed as a 'precaution', the South runway still open.
    200,000 people per day are serviced by LHR.

    Gatwick was closed for 30hrs, hopefully not the same here.
    The tabloids today talked about having bazooka-nets on standby,
    sure they need those net catchers for the moped gangs.


  • #10
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Berties_Horse wrote: »
    Farcical. Borrow a leaf out of the Israel playbook and repel these at distance.

    It’s a drone, not a poor brown person!!


  • #11
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Simon Spicy Self-defense wrote: »
    North runway closed as a 'precaution', the South runway still open.
    200,000 people per day are serviced by LHR.

    And its at 99% utilization. Room for about 60 seconds of delay a day :eek:


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  • #12
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭CPTM


    I was wondering why they went for Gatwick instead of Heathrow before. Must have been a practice run.


  • #13
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    If they don't knock this stuff on the head pretty sharpish, flight prices will become prohibitively expensive again :(


  • #14
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,009 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Joke of a country.

    Sure they had no photos of the last drone, or could say there actually was one at all.


  • #15
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    frag420 wrote: »
    It’s a drone, not a poor brown person!!

    A what now?


  • #16
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,073 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Transport reporter on BBC said Heathrow has drone countermeasures.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #17
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Flights now resumed.


  • #18
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭mattser


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Joke of a country.

    Sure they had no photos of the last drone, or could say there actually was one at all.

    Yea. Next thing they'll be seeing moving statues.


  • #19
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    A what now?

    A poor brown person, the Israelis are pretty adept at repelling those from a distance, they could use the same snipers that shoot unarmed Palestinians to shoot down the drones!


  • #20
    Giveaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Giveaway


    the inertia in British administration is spectacular. there is no motivation to act independently or get things done. If these drone flights had happened here the anti-drone tech would have been bought and implemented within a week. And please no negative replies. have worked abroad and well travelled. Ireland does things incredibly well in most areas in comparison to other countries, though perfection not yet achieved


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