Brain Dead Drone Operators at Gatwick Airport

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Gatwick: suspects exonerated as confusion deepens over drone attack
Detective says it is possible there was no drone activity as pair from Crawley return home
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
Sun 23 Dec 2018 19.36 GMT
Detectives were examining a damaged drone for clues on Sunday night after they had to release two people who were exonerated over the incidents that have repeatedly brought Gatwick airport to a standstill.

Confusion deepened as a senior police officer in the case said it was “always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place”. DCS Jason Tingley added that although the damaged drone was a significant line of inquiry, wet weather could have washed away evidence. He also noted that there were no pictures or video of the drone incursions into the airspace around Gatwick . He said there was “no available footage and [officers] are relying on witness accounts”.

Tingley later clarified that police did believe the drone sightings were credible as there had been a large number of witnesses. “We are actively investigating sightings of drone activity at Gatwick airport following 67 reports from the evening of 19 December to 21 December from the public, passengers, police officers and staff at the airport,” he said.

Sussex police said they were not “back to square one” in the investigation after their suspects were cleared and pointed to new persons of interest and house-to-house inquiries near the location of the drone sightings.

The setback to the investigation followed a series of newspaper reports naming those arrested as 47-year-old Paul Gait, a window fitter, and his 54-year-old wife, Elaine Kirk, from Crawley, three miles south of Gatwick.

They were released after 36 hours of questioning. Their friends expressed dismay that the couple had been arrested in the first place.

Their pictures appeared on a number of Sunday newspaper front pages, one of which asked: “Are these the morons who ruined Christmas?” The television presenter Piers Morgan apologised after describing the pair as “clowns” in a tweet and said the situation was a fiasco.

The airport is now offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible.

Sussex police said the damaged device had been found near to the north perimeter of the airport and added that they were fast-tracking tests on it to offer any clues as to who had been flying it.

The series of sightings over the runway had forced Britain’s second-largest airport to shut three times in three days last week, causing hundreds of flight to be cancelled and an estimated 140,000 passengers to be stranded at the airport.

Tingley said the arrests on Friday had followed a tipoff and said police were working through persons of interest.
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Whether it’s happened or not, it’s only a matter of time before someone does(or did) something like this, resulting in this level of disruption. Certain elements of society will always seem to mess it up everyone else. Several years ago, laser attacks were all the rage, with very few of the idiots identified. The disruption was not to this extent, though, and the brain dead ones seem to have lost interest.
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willyhilly wrote: Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:33 am [Mod edit: We don't need fellow members name-calling.] Police arrest man who was at work when it was happening. Priceless.
Time the EU cut the UK loose to wallow in their own shit.
And [Mod edit: We are trying to cut down on the bickering, and also edited the post you replied to. Thanks.] who cannot read and understand a post correctly and has nothing to add to the thread except baits.

My thread contained nothing that was not in the public domain including the thoughts that these were left wing eco warriors but that does not interest you.

Thought that FLB had cut down on posters like you. Obviously not.
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Clueless! Calls for inquiry into police probe on Gatwick drone chaos as ‘scapegoat’ couple arrested are released without charge and officers admit there may not have been a drone at

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... chaos.html
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