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Not as cheap and easy as calling in a fake bomb threat. I Googled it and found a surprising number of articles about different incidents where airports were sh
by comex 8y ago
Not as cheap and easy as calling in a fake bomb threat. I Googled it and found a surprising number of articles about different incidents where airports were shut down this way... in several different cases, the articles identified the culprit as someone who was late to their flight and wanted to delay it! But that's a spur-of-the-moment decision, whereas bringing a drone requires planning. And other than that, what kind of motivation is there to disrupt an airport for disruption's sake? There's terrorism, but terrorists typically want to produce a body count, not just inconvenience.
- zimpenfish 8y ago> Not as cheap and easy as calling in a fake bomb threat. But a lot safer, I guess? Relatively easy to identify who phoned in a bomb threat these days (absent a sensible person who manages to pick a public phone box uncovered by CCTV) whereas it's presumably a bit trickier to locate a drone pilot (especially since they can be ultra-mobile)
- tim333 8y agoI imagine there's some gear that could track the drone controllers? Not sure exactly how that works.