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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by pc86 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:03PM (#24345584)
Would they confuse two particular models of twin-engine piston Cessna? Maybe (but still, probably not).

Will they confuse a seaplane for a blimp? No.

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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by sandworm101 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:28PM (#24345931)
Or report a weather balloon as a UFO? Or see a plastic bag and report it as a drone? Or try to land on the taxiway thinking it is a runway? Such mistakes happen regularly. Given the lack of photography in this case, I lean towards misidentification rather than a rocketman on approach to LAX.
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