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Can't help but wonder, what was the goal? What were they hoping to achieve with it, and how did they expect to get away?
by m0zg 8y ago
Can't help but wonder, what was the goal? What were they hoping to achieve with it, and how did they expect to get away?
- ToFab123 8y agoMaybe somebody was fired and got pissed off. Similar to a sysadm that changes all passwords on his way out of the door
- samwillis 8y agoRumour is that they were emviromental activists.
- ggm 8y agoThe key word being rumour.
- anigbrowl 8y agoPentesting.
- dsl 8y agoAccording to The Telegraph, government officials suspect an "eco terrorist." No additional details were provided.
- djhworld 8y agoI wouldn't much too much trust in what the telegraph says
- yardstick 8y agoI’m skeptical it’s a group because no one has claimed responsibility- what’s the point causing all this chaos if you won’t at least do an anonymous post claiming it’s due to <xyz> issues. My money is on disgruntled locals (individuals, not group) fed up with the noise, or an individual that feels hard done by / aggrieved by either the airport or an airline.
- dazc 8y agoRecent plans to expand capacity may explain this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/gatwick-plans-using-emergency-runway-to-increase-flight-capacity https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/gatwick-plan...
- CydeWeys 8y agoMy money's on this. No one wants to live next to a major airport what with all the flight noise and reduction in property values.
- thinkingemote 8y agoThere's a discussion about what is protest and direct action in the environmental movement for decades. Is the point publicity and media attention, Or is it something different? One argument against publicity is that it's all about playing the media game. It's similar to how people say you shouldn't put terrorist actions on the news as it only encourages them. If you don't play the media game you don't need to create a media spectacle and can focus on actual effects. For example, what is a successful action in this case? How much co2 was prevented, sound and air pollution? How many people were effected. Might a media action simply stop when it made the news?
- KozmoNau7 8y agoTo cause disruption, show how fragile the infrastructure is to asymmetric attacks. Possibly also with an eco activist motivation, to ground hundreds of planes. Possibly also to make an anti-capitalist statement. I think it's extremely fascinating, and I bet this won't be the last we've seen of this sort of thing happening. The impact is so huge for a relatively small cost and effort.
- graton 8y agoIt depends if five years in prison will be considered a small cost by them. If they do get convicted and serve that long or longer they may not consider it a small cost. Yes the initial cost to launch the attack is small.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoOn the other hand, the cost of a couple of drones, and only two people in prison, does seem like a rather low cost for the sheer amount of chaos they caused. 100,000+ people kept from traveling, an entire airport basically shut down, military response, the whole lot, by just two people with a drone. That's rather impressive.
- mikeash 8y agoIf this starts happening frequently, I think the response will become more reasonable. Birds pose a similar risk and the response there is to try to keep them away, and build aircraft to withstand most hits.
- CydeWeys 8y agoCould be as trivial as they don't like all the noise from planes, which has gotten worse over the years as Gatwick has gotten more flights. Living near an airport sucks.