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Federico

07:27

Excl: Police believe drone chaos at Gatwick in December was an “inside job”. Culprit thought to be a current or former disgruntled employee, who may have flown drone from inside airport rather than external spot. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d5cee71c-3564-11e9-a129-05a1d4d7c2a2

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Dan Hulme

08:23

oh yeah, I read that Dublin Airport was closed for half an hour the other day after a landing pilot reported seeing a drone

Nzall

09:18

Okay, I'm trying to understand something here (which I don't think I can ask on the main site)

bbc.com/news/world-10785301 is a list of all air disasters since 1998. It includes Germanwings 9525 (the suicidal pilot), the Russian plane taken down by IS over the Sinai, the MH17 flight taken down over Ukraine, yet it doesn't include 9/11

Dan Hulme

09:43

@Nzall I don't know why either

maybe a 9/11 conspiracy nut infiltrated the BBC and didn't include it because it never happened

but more likely they just didn't think of it as an air disaster because it was a hijack? have there been other hijackings since 1998 that resulted in total loss, and if so, are they on the list?

Nzall

09:59

@DanHulme Closest thing I can find is the GermanWings incident

though there actually haven't been any other hijackings since 1998 that I can find on the wiki

From what I can tell, the last hijacking that resulted in a crash was 9/11, and then Ethiopian Airlines 961 in 1996

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abelenky

14:58

@TimNevins: I saw your comment about the ash scattering incident over SafeCo. I later trained at that school, and the story was told often. Were you associated with that school / pilots?

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ymb1

19:48

got to love ingenious solutions: radar reflectors on masts to fool RA's into thinking the land before the runway is flat

ymb1

20:12

to avoid the mess of spam not spam of last time, I don't know how to review it, but this user seems to promote a product -- @Federico @Jamiec (only taggable mods)

ymb1

20:23

A Virgin Atlantic flight actually flew faster than the speed of sound at a ground speed of 801 mph. (thisisinsider.com) ... yeah right, faster than Mach 1 👏