After a long break, the infamous “LAX Jetpack Guy” seems to be back. “Jetpack guy” spotted again at LAX last nightOn Wednesday evening, a pilot on the approach to LAX reported to discover a man in a jetpack again. According to a statement by a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
Okay, I know I’m your average geek, but does it matter that half of what I took out of it was, “Look, a 747, they’re rare now, and I wonder which airline!” I digress … I haven’t seen a transcript of the original air traffic control audio, but there is audio from air traffic controllers warning other pilots of the sighting last night:
What we know about the “LAX Jetpack Guy”For those of you unfamiliar with this saga, in the second half of 2021 there were several reports from pilots of a “jetpack guy” flying dangerously close to planes approaching LAX: frameborder = “0” allow = “accelerometer; autoplay; write clipboard; encrypted media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen> This situation was taken seriously so the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated. Assuming this is actually a person in a jetpack, there are a variety of things that make this dangerous and weird:
Earlier this year, we learned more about what could be going on thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) motion that was filed. This revealed that the most likely explanation is that the “jetpack guy” isn’t actually a guy in a jetpack, but rather a drone that looks like a guy in a jetpack, something like the one below. frameborder = “0” allow = “accelerometer; autoplay; write clipboard; encrypted media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen> We still don’t know for sure, but that is the prevailing theory. While I can appreciate the humor in general (making a drone look like a person), it is so reckless and wrong to do so in busy airspace while trying to distract pilots who have the lives of others in their hands. Bottom lineIt seems that the mysterious “LAX Jetpack Guy” is showing up again. “He” was spotted by a 747 pilot near LAX last night and air traffic controllers asked other pilots to keep an eye out. We really don’t know anything else other than the theory is that this could actually be a drone that looks like a person. The fact that the person behind this has still not been caught is shocking … What do you think of these ongoing jetpack sightings? Via https://globalconnekt.com/mysterious-lax-jetpack-guy-reappears/
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