EU referendum: Pro-Brexit campaigners branded ‘disgusting’ as plane carrying banner flies over Jo Cox memorial
According to BN’s spokesperson:
We understand that, during a pre-planned photo opportunity over Westminster today, we were visible from Trafalgar Square and that our flight coincided with an important memorial service,”
“The timing of our flight was determined by weather, air traffic control and the prior approval of the the Diplomatic Protection Group and required the consent of the Metropolitan Police.”
“We are clearly very disappointed that the timing of the service and our flight have overlapped but there was no NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) requesting the avoidance and the coincidence of timing could not have been known by the crew flying the sortie.”
A bit of a slopey-shouldered response! I saw two Islanders flying low over Edinburgh last weekend, and had to do some serious digging to find out why, as neither was towing a banner. The (minimal) response on Twitter was more of alarm than anything else; it would seem that the general public associate low flying aircraft in urban areas with some sort of security issue, and not a political stunt.
The irony, of course, is that the majority of Islanders were built in Romania.
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June 23, 2016 at 11:06 am