Mildenhall Incident

[Ian G]

Just been reported on BBC News - clicky

[Wissam24]

Car tried to ram the gates, stopped and driver now in police custody. All over, nothing to see here really.

[Ian G]

Yet there are people on Facebook claiming there's an active shooter and a CV-22 has sustained damage . . .

Edit - this isn't true!!!!!

[Tommy]

Yet there are people on Facebook claiming...

I normally stop there in any reliance I place on "news" if it's come out of Facebook or Twitter for this very reason

Social media could have been the new frontier in citizen journalism. Used to be that a lie could get halfway around the world before the truth could put its shoes on. Society through the medium of completely unregulated social media "journalism" has given the lie a pair of roller skates, and the truth a pair of concrete slippers.

Sometimes social media comes into its own and outstrips all the major new sites, but that's still not worth the risk of accidentally trusting some utterly dud rubbish that comes out of there, too.

[boff180]

Yet there are people on Facebook claiming there's an active shooter and a CV-22 has sustained damage . . .

Edit - this isn't true!!!!!

The former coming from twitter based on people claiming to hear it on base ops radio frequencies.

What an utter idiot though regardless of motive. Anyone who has ever visited on base at Mildenhall knows all points of entry are like Fort Knox!

[portagee01]

The news channels now reporting that shots were fired by US personnel within the base as the person apparently made it through (by how far is unclear) the gates and onto the base itself.

This may explain the "active shooter" suggestions.

[jules48]

Other forums have blocked this as reporters use these forums to publish utter rubbish so may be worth noting

[Wissam24]

Other forums have blocked this as reporters use these forums to publish utter rubbish so may be worth noting

Well, seeing as the incident is over now (and, indeed, was by the time this was posted) things are slightly calmer - but nothing so far has been presented as speculation. Only one thing really has been said and it's been debunked by the same poster. Our usual caveat applies that anything outlandishly speculative will be deleted.

[Brevet Cable]

PPRuNe didn't block it.
Neither did ARRSE.....and if the journos ( who are too stupid to learn ) make their copy up from posts on there, there'll be some really weird media articles doing the rounds

[portagee01]

Pictures on BBC news show one of the CV-22s on the flight line specifically cordended off with activity at it. This may or may not have something to do with the incident, and may be source of the suggestions that an aircraft was damaged.

[Fournier]

I love this quote from Suffolk Police Superintendent Kim Warner who said; "the vehicle was stopped close to a US Osprey, a £43m helicopter which converts into a turboprop airplane once airborne." Transformers, robots in disguise springs to mind!

[CJS]

And why in hell's name is a police officer from Suffolk calling it an "airplane"?

You're a British police officer, it's an aeroplane.

Grr...

[capercaillie]

And why in hell's name is a police officer from Suffolk calling it an "airplane"?

You're a British police officer, it's an aeroplane.

Grr...

And why are you impersonating a camp tiger?