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The Drone That Hated Christmas! - BIAD - 12-23-2018
A major airport in England called Gatwick has been the place of massive delays for the last few days due
to the concern that a drone was buzzing the runways and risking flight take-offs.
Every day, a report was offered in the multiple news outlets that spoke of sightings of the device, the misery
of delayed passengers being late home for Christmas and the ineptitude of the Police to capture the culprits
controlling the drone.
The same media suggested it was some type of 'eco-protest' and discussed different ways of shooting the
machine out of the sky safely. The BBC even showed a vague shape in the sky that was ringed to notify its
viewers.
Then two people were arrested -as the husband was a model-maker and the married couple lived close to
Gatwick airport.
By Sunday, the airport south of London was back to normal. However, the week-long drama may have been just
that, theatre.
Quote:Gatwick drone – police sensationally admit there may never have been a drone attack as cops slammed overThe Sun:
couple quizzed for 36 hours
Paul Gait, 47, and wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were arrested at their Crawley home on Friday night over the attacks
but have now been released without charge.
'Cops have today been slammed for holding a married couple without charge over the Gatwick chaos - before
admitting 'there may never have been a drone'. Paul Gait, 47, and wife Elaine Kirk, 54, spent more than 36 hours
being quizzed by detectives over the device that brought Gatwick Airport to its knees.
They returned to their home in Crawley, Sussex today after friends and family insisted they weren't the "eco warriors"
behind the attack. Window fitter Paul's boss revealed he was at work during the attacks which affected 14,000
passengers.
As the culprit remains at large four days after the attacks, police have been criticised for their "appalling investigation".
Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley said there was "no available footage and they are relying on witness
accounts."
Asked about speculation if there was never a drone, he said: "Of course, that's a possibility.
We are working with human beings saying they have seen something."
It comes as police revealed they found a damaged drone close to Gatwick and offered a £50,000 reward to catch the
culprit.
Police are working through information relating to "persons of interest", investigating more than 67 drone sightings
and forensically examining the damaged drone, he insisted.
John Allard, who runs Allard Double Glazing, claimed he had tried to call cops to clear Paul's name but officers never
phoned him back.
He said: "Obviously the police could have handled it better just by asking the who, when and where.
The police have handled this absolutely appallingly, they really have."
He explained how window fitter Paul had been working on Wednesday in Kent and was driving John's injured daughter
around on Friday.
John said: "I know Paul well, he's worked for me for 17 years and this is going to hit him like a 10-tonne truck.
Paul Gait is as harmless as a bloody newborn fly. "He really is, he's the most inoffensive bloke you'll ever meet...'
Odd, even after the BBC offered the amateur footage, they now report:
Quote:'...Sussex Police said there had been 67 reports of drone sightings - having earlier cast doubt on "genuine droveBBC:
activity".
Det Ch Supt Jason Tingley said no footage of a drone had been obtained.
And he said there was "always a possibility" the reported sightings of drones were mistaken...'
I presume the 'drove' is a spelling error.
On Twitter:
Sussex Police
#GatwickDrones | For clarification: we are investigating 67 #drone sightings made by public,
passengers, police officers and staff at @GatwickAirport. We have recovered a damaged #drone,
we're conducting house to house enquiries & taking statements from all who reported sightings
So what the hell has caused thousands of commuters to be late home...? Or was it just another of these false-flag,
'look-over-here' stories?
RE: The Drone That Hated Christmas! - Mystic Wanderer - 12-23-2018
Yes, it sounds like they didn't want someone to try to leave the airport. Was someone trying to make an escape? Or as you said, it was all a distraction for bigger things going on "over there". Look! Squirrel!!
If that isn't the case, then the only other explanation I can come up with is that the Millennials have joined the police force, and this is the result of their investigation; A nothing burger.
RE: The Drone That Hated Christmas! - BIAD - 12-26-2018
As Mystic indicates, this 'drone-scare' of Gatwick airport is sounding more-and-more similar to the newspaper-driven
Skripal-Novichok debacle.
Quote:New Gatwick 'drone sighting' turns out to be crane lights.SOURCE:
Police swooped on three suspected drone sightings near Gatwick only to discover they were actually lights on top of
cranes.
'Panic-stricken locals called the police on Sunday night after spotting what they thought were drones flying in the sky in
Redhill, Surrey. It came after a drone sighting brought Gatwick airport to its knees by halting flights for more than 36 hours
earlier in the week.
But when officers investigated Sunday's sighting, around seven miles from the airport, they found the objects were merely
lights attached to cranes. A Surrey Police spokesperson said: "Due to recent events at Gatwick we popped down to investigate
further.
"It was a crane, a crane with an 'aviation warning light' on top. "Mystery solved."
Residents told officers they had spotted a red light hovering above a bus station.
They added it was not moving or making any noise.
Bemused locals flocked to Facebook to mock the incident.
One said: "I'd be surprised if you don't get a call about a strange liquid substance falling from the sky."
Police are still searching for the culprit, or culprits, behind the drone sighting that sparked the Gatwick chaos.
They have even said they cannot rule out there may not have been any drone at all.
Officers had arrested a couple in Crawley, before later releasing them without charge.
The duo said earlier today they feel "completely violated" and said they are receiving medical care...'
RE: The Drone That Hated Christmas! - Mystic Wanderer - 12-26-2018
Quote:It came after a drone sighting brought Gatwick airport to its knees by halting flights for more than 36 hours
earlier in the week.
Give me a freakin' break already!
If what people were reporting were crane lights it wouldn't have taken 36 hours to realize it. The only reason it could have been true is if they needed a reason to shut down the airport and this was the best they could do.
Or... maybe it actually WAS Millennials in charge of the investigation and it took this long to realize what the lights were. SMH!
I'm going with the first option.