Jet Pack Man Buzzes L.A Airport?

[Alex]

Aviation authorities and the FBI are investigating reports that someone was flying with a jet pack near Los Angeles International airport on Sunday.

Two airline flight crews reported seeing what appeared to be someone in a jet pack as they were on their final approaches to LAX early in the morning.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller told the Los Angeles Times that agents at the airport were responding after pilots notified the control tower about the incident.

Recordings of communications between the pilots and air traffic control tower have been obtained by US media outlets.

In the recording, one pilot says: "Tower, American 1997. We just passed a guy in a jet pack."

The controller says: "America 1997, okay - were they off to your left side or right side?"

The pilot replies: "Off the left side, maybe 300 yards or so, about our altitude."

A few seconds later, another pilot tells the tower: "We just saw the guy pass by us in a jet pack."

The controller tells the pilot to "use caution", adding: "Person in a jet pack reported 300 yards south of the LA final at about 3,000ft."

An unidentified person can then be heard saying: "Only in LA."

If he (or she) collides with a jet there is going to be one hell of a mess.

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[RCMerchant]

A jet pack? Where does anybody get a f**king JET PACK?

[Alex]

Here, apparently.

http://futurism.com/get-ready-for-takeoff-you-can-finally-buy-a-real-life-jetpack

[ER]

I'm kinda with Neil Gaiman here, we already invented rocket cars and affordable personal jet packs, but they were so much trouble (just imagine a half-empty Big Gulp tossed out a jet car window at 500 MPH, from 5,000 feet? Yeah, death from above.) that the beings that run our collective Matrix rewound our timeline to back before such things were developed, and now won't let us have them again. Ever.

This the dude in the jet pack is going to get whacked any day now, like Mad Mike Hughes, formerly the man who verified the fact our planet is flat.