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The question posed is not whether anyone reported seeing drones, but whether the reports are accurate. The fact that you got a first-hand report personally doe
by dpark 8y ago
The question posed is not whether anyone reported seeing drones, but whether the reports are accurate. The fact that you got a first-hand report personally doesn't mean it's any more reliable than the first-hand reports the police received.
The claim that they saw it hovering "for a while" actually makes this particular claim less believable. They witnessed it hovering by the control tower for an extended period of time but never bothered to get their phone out?
- wokwokwok 8y agoThis is what I find astonishing. If a car is on fire in a normal street, half the people just stop to take photos or start live streaming it (this happened in Melbourne recently). How did no one pull out their phone and take any pictures? People takes photos of airports and planes all the time because it’s so different from day-to-day stuff. It seems implausibly unlikely that both no one took photos and no one shared them online.
- fiddlerwoaroof 8y agoAren’t ATCs not allowed to have their cellphones in the tower?
- dpark 8y agoThey have to be off. But Controllers still Snapchat at times. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/268495-report-air-traffic-controllers-disciplined-for-snapchatting-on-duty https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/268495-rep... But more to the point, the poster I was replying to did not claim that the witness was working in the control tower. Merely that they observed a drone hovering near the control tower. Of course, they might have been far enough away that they couldn't capture a photo. That would indicate that they likely were far enough away that they couldn't definitively ID a drone, too.