Heard on the radio DAA do have equipment that can identify drones and send out the alarm automatically – likely these are sensitive enough to know the launch area. Good.
I think I was reading last week, that if charged with the correct offences, and found guilty, the judge would have no option but to give them prison time.
Some may think that’s excessive, but this person has endangered hundreds if not thousands of lives.
I wonder was it the person that made 23k complaints in one year? I wonder if the gardaí solved the case by reading the reddit posts like lazy journalists?
Put this virgin in prison.
Good.
Judge Nolan has given a suspended sentence and 500 Ryanair voucher for the person’s troubles
They should be sued to cover the cost of the distribution they caused.
How far away could he have taken off from? What’s the range of these things?
Was he in his back garden or something? Surely that’s the only way he could of been tracked
Hope they don’t come up in front of Judge Nolan !!
Morning Ireland mentioned a hardware serial number being used to single out the drone responsible. The airport or some body liaised with the manufacturer.
I’d like to hear the reasons why people fly near airports… I mean you have to be pretty stupid or living under a rock to know that it’s not safe.
Prison!
>At around 6pm yesterday evening, gardaí arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of flying a drone near the airport on one of the four occasions, 24 January this year.
I would have expected someone in a younger age range there.
What this does show, is that – if you replace something as stupid and dangerous as flying drones, with safer forms of protest – airports would be one of the most effective protest targets (though doubt this was a protest).
If someone started a fight on a flight and disrupted the schedules, the airline would ban them. I think Ryanair, Aer Lingus et al should put this wanker on a no-fly for causing disruption to multiple flights.
Enjoy the Ferry wanker.
Shows what I know, I was sure it was going to be another case of mistaken identity (I think hysteria is too harsh a word in fairness) ala Gatwick.
How in the sweet name of fuck did they find out who did it?!
I’m going to go out of a limb here with my theory. Brills is a non-existent surname anywhere according to the internets, though Brill would seem to be closest, though again unheard of in Ireland. Looking at the photo of him and name, it woudn’t surprise me if this chap was working for an MNC (or elsewhere) in Ireland and went a bit off the deep end mentally. I’d nearly bet he’s a Yank, and Brills is one of these Ellis island-ized names. From the photo in the paper he looks like he could be Nordic, Dutch, German, Swiss ect of from that family backround in the States. Could be South African as well I suppose. In the Sun photo he looks a bit more like an Irish auld lad, but could easily still be not.
Certainly from the photo, he doesn’t look like the average chap called Anto you’d expect. The Swords address is well away from the flight path so that rules out him being the 30,000 complaints person, who I understand lives at the western end of the new runway.
i thought they said afterwards it wasnt a drone it was a false alarm?
What an idiot. First of all for endangering people and secondly for making the rest of us drone operators look bad. What a dope. I hope the judge makes an example of him and others learn, that its no joke to fly around airports.
That seems like a pretty serious punishment, wonder what he was doing to warrant it.like I understand he is getting punished but ismf it wasn’t malicious feels pretty shit in comparison to things other people do and don’t get punished for
This is MY country, MY airspace. Take your beurocratic nonsense and shove it. Nobody can own the peoples fresh air
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Bake him away, toys.
Heard on the radio DAA do have equipment that can identify drones and send out the alarm automatically – likely these are sensitive enough to know the launch area. Good.
I think I was reading last week, that if charged with the correct offences, and found guilty, the judge would have no option but to give them prison time.
Some may think that’s excessive, but this person has endangered hundreds if not thousands of lives.
I wonder was it the person that made 23k complaints in one year? I wonder if the gardaí solved the case by reading the reddit posts like lazy journalists?
Put this virgin in prison.
Good.
Judge Nolan has given a suspended sentence and 500 Ryanair voucher for the person’s troubles
They should be sued to cover the cost of the distribution they caused.
How far away could he have taken off from? What’s the range of these things?
Was he in his back garden or something? Surely that’s the only way he could of been tracked
Hope they don’t come up in front of Judge Nolan !!
Morning Ireland mentioned a hardware serial number being used to single out the drone responsible. The airport or some body liaised with the manufacturer.
I’d like to hear the reasons why people fly near airports… I mean you have to be pretty stupid or living under a rock to know that it’s not safe.
Prison!
>At around 6pm yesterday evening, gardaí arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of flying a drone near the airport on one of the four occasions, 24 January this year.
I would have expected someone in a younger age range there.
What this does show, is that – if you replace something as stupid and dangerous as flying drones, with safer forms of protest – airports would be one of the most effective protest targets (though doubt this was a protest).
If someone started a fight on a flight and disrupted the schedules, the airline would ban them. I think Ryanair, Aer Lingus et al should put this wanker on a no-fly for causing disruption to multiple flights.
Enjoy the Ferry wanker.
Shows what I know, I was sure it was going to be another case of mistaken identity (I think hysteria is too harsh a word in fairness) ala Gatwick.
How in the sweet name of fuck did they find out who did it?!
I’m going to go out of a limb here with my theory. Brills is a non-existent surname anywhere according to the internets, though Brill would seem to be closest, though again unheard of in Ireland. Looking at the photo of him and name, it woudn’t surprise me if this chap was working for an MNC (or elsewhere) in Ireland and went a bit off the deep end mentally. I’d nearly bet he’s a Yank, and Brills is one of these Ellis island-ized names. From the photo in the paper he looks like he could be Nordic, Dutch, German, Swiss ect of from that family backround in the States. Could be South African as well I suppose. In the Sun photo he looks a bit more like an Irish auld lad, but could easily still be not.
Certainly from the photo, he doesn’t look like the average chap called Anto you’d expect. The Swords address is well away from the flight path so that rules out him being the 30,000 complaints person, who I understand lives at the western end of the new runway.
i thought they said afterwards it wasnt a drone it was a false alarm?
[https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/one-dublin-airport-drone-scare-29158886](https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/one-dublin-airport-drone-scare-29158886)
What an idiot. First of all for endangering people and secondly for making the rest of us drone operators look bad. What a dope. I hope the judge makes an example of him and others learn, that its no joke to fly around airports.
That seems like a pretty serious punishment, wonder what he was doing to warrant it.like I understand he is getting punished but ismf it wasn’t malicious feels pretty shit in comparison to things other people do and don’t get punished for
This is MY country, MY airspace. Take your beurocratic nonsense and shove it. Nobody can own the peoples fresh air