Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by sizzle on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:50AM (#24350983)

Why didn't the FAA get the cops or military to scramble some jets to apprehend this individual? How is this not a national security threat?? Who knows if they were strapped with IED type device.

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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by icebraining on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:02AM (#24351342)

If you want to get a flying IED, you can use a commercially available RC plane. Nobody with the means to build a working jetpack would use it to do something so pedestrian as a suicide bombing.

The FAA should still have a stern talking to the guy, of course, if he flew in the path of airplanes.

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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by rtx on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:57AM (#24351027)

This is amazing. Jets can't capture someone with a Jetpack. He will simply land, they work with other planes.

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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by russler23 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:53AM (#24351001)

I feel like the above comment is the HN analogue of an old man yelling at skateboard kids from his porch.

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