Originally Posted by
ECHO24
To be a jetpack the guy would have had to land with a parachute, vitually impossible to do 3 miles from LAX without being spotted.
So let's toss this in the mix: The guy jumps from a plane at 10,000' in the practice area for Torrance airport (where I got my pilot's
licence) just offshore. He glides east, fires up and passes the two airliners and continues on to someplace in Riverside Co. (Perris,
86 miles) where skydiving is common and chutes down without anyone noticing. At 3,000' a person with a jetpack would be invisible
and just random jet noise that everyone who lives there is used to hearing.
Okay, now we have a second way that is plausible, just like my earlier suggestion of standing on a boarding step and jumping off after starting all the turbines. That gives us two ways this could have gone down and keeps the credibility of the pilots safe, for now