It happened a couple of days ago. “A boy with a jetpack” was spotted by the pilots of a Boeing 777 during the descent at the Los Angeles airport. So wrote on his LinkedIn profile, the military analyst Dr. Franco Iacch. Precise, Iacch, this is the second known episode, after the one that took place on 30 August, with a jetpack and an airliner. Unlike the highly controlled and coordinated maneuvers recorded in some promos, the two Rocketeers spotted in Los Angeles would have flown at the same altitude as the plane during the descent.
It seems superfluous to point out the folly of such a clearly unauthorized maneuver. Until a few years ago, talking about drones being thrown at airliners caused laughter. Today swarm technology is a reality (the flock of kamikaze drones tested by China last September is a clear example). As I have been repeating for years, the military annotator Iacch states, the implementation of explosives on low-cost devices, in some cases, is only a detail.
THEImprovised Air Threatin fact, it must not be conceived only as an army. If they weren't adaptable, terrorists would be nothing. Illegal Jetpacks could one day represent the future of the Improvised Air Threat. We must never lose the ability to imagine the unimaginable.
The story of the American Airlines airliner
A double investigation was launched regarding the incredible sighting made by pilots of an American Airlines airliner as it approached Los Angeles International Airport. The two pilots said they had intercepted a man flying with a jet pack, which was immediately reported to the control tower, precisely at 18 pm local time on Sunday.
According to the audio recording of the brief interview between the pilots of the airliner and the control tower, this person was less than 300 meters away to the left of the plane.
Following the sighting, the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration immediately launched independent investigations. It seems that the man with the jet pack has not yet been identified and the only thing that is sure is that he risked his life: flying so close to an airliner, especially over an airport as crowded as Los Angeles. , it really means going for trouble.
If he had been closer, the chances of being sucked into one of the aircraft's engines would have risen dangerously and this without counting the risks of impact or fall following a malfunction of the device, probably something "artisanal", a fall for sure deadly from that height.