Not forgetting the five police officers who allegedly spotted six more sightings not long after the security guard.
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Exactly, more inexpert aerial observers who had already been told what to look for, and guess what, that’s exactly what they saw, at night in a sky full pf aeroplanes. Hysteria was setting in by this point, and everybody wanted to be the terrorist attack hero who saved xmas, not a situation conducive to rational thought…
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Fuelled by the gutter press
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Its very interesting this subject. It seems incompetence is winning the reasoning. Personally, knowing how corrupt the world is, I would say there is another reason for this sharade. MONEY!!!
Most of Gatwicks, internal systems, were old. Like 40+ years old. Now, just supposing there was a major failure of systems, right on the week when Gatwick was about to be sold? If it came to light that the systems had failed, could it affect the purchase price or perhaps kybosh the purchase altogether? Hmmm, sounds plausible.
So, an interference story is needed, one that will have every crap-eating tabloid salivating over it. Yes, you got it, a dangerous drone is on the loose.
Of course, this is all just speculation, until you take this into account. Gatwick Airport sold to France’s Vinci for £2.9bn days after drone chaos closes runways | The Independent | The Independent
I did post a similar comment onto the YT comments for the Philip Rowse video but mysteriously it seems to have been removed. Wonder why?
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That’s interesting, but I would have thought Vinci, who are a big player and no fools, would have been well aware of the state of Gatwick’s old equipment long before the deal went down or this ghost drone showed up, or rather, didn’t). I doubt the imaginary drone business affacted the deal either way.
Plenty of conspiracy no doubt, but more in terms of covering up errors and incompetence.
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Well sure, of course its conspiracy, certainly enough to make you go hmmmm…
After all these big companies always do thorough and complete due diligence on their purchases, just ask HP…
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Very interesting, thanks
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Just for clarification, it’s not my contention that there was no drone, my view and the evidence clearly supports this is that there was not a concerted drone attack on the airport in the manner LGW and Sussex Police made there out to be.
The NPAS helicopter was there about 30 minutes after the security guard saw something, I’m told from a journalist that interviewed the security guard that he came across as sincere, so I’ve no reason to doubt that he genuinely thought he saw a drone, but there’s a number of plausible explanations for that, including there even briefly having been a malicious drone.
That said by the time the NPAS helicopter turns up, which are equipped with military grade optical units, whatever was seen was gone.
Thereafter people were reporting the helicopter and the only official evidence of a drone is likely a Matrice M210 flown by Sussex Police, who, surprise surprise, are fighting the release of their drone flight logs.
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There’s no recorded evidence of that (a number of police backing up the initial 21:06pm sighting) which has been provided, though there is evidence the NPAS crew that turned up soon after saw nothing.
Though even if there were police sightings given whatever was seen could never be described in any detail whatsoever, there’s simply nothing robust and convincing.
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Maybe not the right post for this but it mentions Gatwick
Why can’t the likes of DJI ( being one of the top brands for drones in the UK / World ) not putting a label on a box that directs people to the CAA website for the rules on a drone is beyond me - know years ago Jessops use to give you a printed leaflet that basically covered the basics of the Drone Code but so many people have no idea of the requirements needed to fly a drone here in the UK - boggles the minds
So now you have Gatwick Airport basically appealing to people - sort of reminds me of the Dog is not just for Christmas campaigns !
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