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|  Message 244  |
|  Vincent Coen to Aviation HQ  |
|  Guy in a jet-pack over LA  |
|  04 Sep 20 16:08:25  |
 REPLY: 2:292/854 13280916 MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 5f5258a8 CHRS: UTF-8 2 TZUTC: 0100 TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.17 (GNU/Linux-x86_64) Hello Aviation! Thursday September 03 2020 16:31, you wrote to All: > Several pilots spotted a man in a jetpack over Los Angeles recently. > The man flew at an altitude of almost a kilometer, on an approach > route to the airport. The FBI has started an investigation. > The jetpack man was first spotted by the pilots of American Airlines > flight 1997 from Philadelphia. They informed air traffic control that > he flew less than 300 meters from their Airbus A321. A short time > later, the pilots of a SkyWest flight also reported it. > It is of course very dangerous to fly with a jetpack at that altitude. > If such a person collides with an airplane, it will almost certainly > lead to a serious incident. The jetpack man is still being searched > for. For now there doesn't seem to be any trace of him. Did he not file a IFR flight plan as it sound like he was in the approach phase ? :) Vincent --- Mageia Linux v7.1 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.13/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1) SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 19/36 25/0 21 90/1 106/201 116/18 120/331 340 SEEN-BY: 123/130 140 153/0 757 802 6809 7715 203/0 218/220 700 221/0 SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/702 229/101 424 426 664 230/0 240/5411 SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 249/317 400 250/0 1 5 8 32 261/38 100 263/0 SEEN-BY: 263/5 266/512 267/155 275/100 280/464 5003 282/1031 1056 SEEN-BY: 291/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 322/757 335/364 341/66 SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 633/280 640/1321 712/848 770/1 SEEN-BY: 4500/1 PATH: 250/1 261/38 153/757 221/6 1 280/464 240/5832 229/426 |
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