15 Hilarious Tweets That Tell The Story Of The Gatwick Drone Chaos

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What a week. As if dealing with the hazy knowledge of what you got up to at the office Christmas party wasn’t bad enough, it also became apparent that our country’s infrastructure can be brought down by a radio-controlled toy. Possibly.

Such is the magnitude of the drama, ministers will discuss the Gatwick Airport drone drama in a Christmas Eve conference call.

Yet authorities have no suspects, no motive and the latest possibility is there was never a drone in the first place. How the hell did this happen?

Wednesday December 19

9pm – Gatwick suspends flights in and out of the airport after reports of two drones flying near the airfield. Some planes are diverted to other airports.

Jake the drone photographer obliviously tweets his fantastic picture of Gatwick captured just that morning.

I got some decent pictures of Gatwick earlier.
Was the airport shut or something? No planes were taking off or landing?#Gatwick #Travel #DroneGate #GatwickAirport #drones #drone pic.twitter.com/UGk3f3whSV

— JAKE (@JAKES_PHOTOS) December 20, 2018

Just to clarify this is a joke. I am not involved with the drone activities at Gatwick.

— JAKE (@JAKES_PHOTOS) December 20, 2018

Thursday December 20

3am – The runway reopens

Pray for me that @Gatwick_Airport reopens by 11am tomorrow morning.

The UK can’t handle a few drones in the area apparently. If this happened at LAX they’d be gone in 10mins and have the people responsible arrested before they could hit the ground.

— Billy Kenny 🛸 (@BillyKennyMusic) December 20, 2018

3:45am – The runway shuts again after a further report of drone sightings

Whoever flew the drone(s) over @Gatwick_Airport owes me $1900 which is what I had to pay for the last seat on a flight from London Heathrow.

DM me so i can send you my Paypal deets 😘

— Billy Kenny 🛸 (@BillyKennyMusic) December 21, 2018

3:50pm – The Ministry of Defence says police are in “ongoing discussions” with the Army about assisting with the operation to find the drones.

The public helpfully make their own suggestions.

Lob some loo roll at it.

As it turns out, there was quite a simple solution to the Gatwick drone incursion.... pic.twitter.com/oluJUh56CH

— Vikas Shah MBE (@MrVikas) December 23, 2018

Ship in these dapper Dutch birds.

The Dutch #drone killing Eagles get to wear little police helmets when not fucking up drones. This is my favourite thing ever! #DroneGate #Gatwick #GatwickDrones pic.twitter.com/k4TNnrk7yC

— Justin Hutton (@thebeerbeagle) December 20, 2018

Even Her Maj* was losing patience.

Get the RAF on the sodding blower and shoot the bastards out of the air. #GatwickDrones

— Elizabeth Windsor (@Queen_UK) December 20, 2018

*not actually Her Maj

9:30pm – The airport’s chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe says the airport will remain closed for the rest of the evening after drone activity was reported “within the last hour”.

Meanwhile on the ground, those waiting in Gatwick were expressing their frustration including Jackie, who said whoever was responsible “needs hanging”.

A bit strong maybe Jackie my love? #DroneGate pic.twitter.com/ZnXUlgxfQJ

— D A V I D (@UKDavidMcEvoy) December 20, 2018

Outside Gatwick and in the comfort of their own armchairs, the Twitterati was ploughing full steam ahead with a number of conspiracy theories.

Apparently the government was up to something so dastardly that they’d rather the British public believed they had absolutely no contingency plan in place to stop a single drone bringing the country’s second-largest airport to total standstill.

I said last week there'd be false flags. Do I trust the tories? Not in a million. This is gonna be blamed on Russia or Iran. Just wait. #DroneGate

— Jackie Kane (@JackieKane) December 20, 2018

#Dronegate seems to sum up so much about the UK in 2018. The government appears incompetent and clueless to a quite incredible degree; ordinary people are suffering; and it is hard to avoid an uneasy suspicion you are not being told the truth, as the official narrative seems nuts

— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) December 20, 2018

Although, come to think of it, these two chaps did look a bit suspicious.

Found the real perpetrators of the #GatwickDrones pic.twitter.com/IwL33zHrLX

— JDog (@TheJonBT) December 20, 2018

Friday December 21

5:58am – According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, a plane from East Midlands Airport lands at Gatwick.

5:26pm - Flights suspended again due to a “suspected drone sighting”. Passengers aboard one flight given inadvertent tour of south-west England.

Gatwick closed again! This RwandAir flight from Brussels to Gatwick is quite literally going round in circles while seeing if its safe to land. pic.twitter.com/j1uRGl5xHA

— Robert Philpot (@RobertPhilpot) December 21, 2018

6:31pm - Airport reopens after operators were reassured that military measures in place mean it is safe to fly despite a “confirmed sighting of a drone”.

This is how we dealt with drones in medieval times #dronegate pic.twitter.com/0YEscVNqQh

— Andy Powell (@p0welly) December 21, 2018

Saturday December 22

1:31am - Two people arrested in connection with the “criminal use of drones”. Both identified by some media outlets and Piers Morgan.

@MailOnline time to pay compensation for inaccurate reporting. #Gatwick Drone pic.twitter.com/7sKzPQzvkD

— Micky 👴🏻 (@mick376ad) December 23, 2018

Sunday December 23

11:21am - Two people released without charge.

11:29am - Piers Morgan apologises

I, like most in the media today, owe these two an apology. They’re not the (suspected) drone clowns after all. Meanwhile, the real culprit(s) remain at large.. what an ongoing fiasco. Sorry Paul & Elaine... https://t.co/0XdFM5LGLW

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 23, 2018

3:48pm - Damaged drone found by police.

BREAKING : First image of damaged drone discovered near Gatwick released by police... pic.twitter.com/6GRuWgR6Kd

— Welsh Bollocks 🏴 (@welshbollocks) December 24, 2018

7:34pm - Asked about speculation there was never a drone, Sussex Police said: “Of course, that’s a possibility. We are working with human beings saying they have seen something.”

7:35pm - The heads of everyone in the UK collectively explode.

Merry Christmas everyone.

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