ESB claims Red Bull skydive was ‘serious safety incident’

by OldVillageNuaGuitar

14 comments
  1. >The statement added that work is currently under way at the chimneys, with steeplejacks currently working on one of the towers.

    It’s fair enough to be a bit annoyed that they didn’t ask for permission

  2. Shouldve asked permission but yea theyre were all safey issues. I’d wonder if they actually needed permission though. Id imagine they probably needed permission from airport authority or something, maybe council or someone that controls the airspace ESB dont own the sky above the building.

  3. The article includes a quote from RedBull saying they had permission:

    “This was done with rigorous safety measures and with the permission from all the required relevant authorities – i.e. the Irish Aviation Authority and Air Traffic Control.”

    I guess they didn’t ask the ESB though…

  4. If anyone is interested, you can see the fights on FlightRadar playback at 4:35 am UTC, 5:33 am UTC, and again at 6:27UTC. It seems they did it twice. Helicopter is EI-XHC.

    Also, if anyone was on the Ryanair flight to Santorini at 6:15am, they got a great view going straight over Dublin which is a really unusual routing (5:40am UTC on Flightradar)

  5. Doubt they needed ESB permission

    https://legalguide.ie/boundaries-i/

    >Land is notionally divided by an imaginary vertical division upwards towards the sky and downwards towards the centre of the earth. There are limits to a person’s ownership upwards and downwards. Generally, land may be owned only up to a height that may usefully be used for the ordinary use of land.

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