Holy shit, I thought the initial reporting of it just being a balloon was as embarrassing as the incident could get.
This is a second incident, if I’m reading it right. So CBP flew a drone over or near the airport and got the whole airport shut down, then did it again a couple of weeks later. They need their toys taken away.
I don’t think the first was a drone. Earlier reporting was that they wanted to test the laser by the airport, FAA said no. They started shooting at things anyway and came up with the balloon answer when first questioned by the press. There’s no proof of a trespassing balloon or any otherl object as far as I know, though I imagine they would send up targets when test-firing. This seems like they got trigger happy again but since nobody at any of these agencies knows what the fuck they’re doing, they shot someone’s equipment out of the sky. Could have easily been a small plane instead.
Could have easily been a small plane instead
Couldn’t it also cause problems for a large plane? I’m pretty sure if I shined my little green laser into the sky under the approach for a local airport I’d get a knock on the door pretty fast.
Yeah, but I’m assuming they didn’t mean to shoot drone. They hopefully wouldn’t mistake a passenger jet for a practice target.
Oh. Jesus fucking christ.
🤡 on 🤡 violence
Based military, I guess…?
It was flying in their airspace and it didn’t identify itself. So they shot the ~black man~ drone out of the sky.
This was covered in the classes I took to get my Pt 107. Someone didn’t look at their maps.
I bet they just found some guy who had his own DJI mini-2 and decided he was the drone guy.
Oh I was literally just making a joke. I wouldn’t be surprised.
