Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Sat Jul 26, 2014 11:18 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

The flight crashed after failing to land "safely".

It landed sure enough

No, it crashed. Landing is something else entirely. Go and look up what a landing is. Hint: it's what most of us are used to when we fly.

Oxford English Dictionary wrote:

Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way

It wasn't a landing, it wasn't even a crash landing, it was simply a crash.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:26 pm  

Anyone see the fighter plane escorting the passenger plane over Stockport just? Seemed to be really harassing it, circling it both over and under and in front of the cockpit. Don't know what's going on but must have made it quite choppy and scary for those on the passenger plane.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:17 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Anyone see the fighter plane escorting the passenger plane over Stockport just? Seemed to be really harassing it, circling it both over and under and in front of the cockpit. Don't know what's going on but must have made it quite choppy and scary for those on the passenger plane.

Apparently due to information received by the pilot re a suspected device on board.

Doubt it will have made any difference to the passengers, apart from wondering what the hell was going on. The fighter pilot will know where to position himself to avoid his wash affecting other aircraft.

I flew out of JFK to Manchester on BA in 2003. Looked out the window somewhere over the Atlantic and saw the lights of a fighter a few hundred feet below us, close enough I could see the cockpit display and the pilot's head moving. I asked one of the crew if there was any reason we might be being escorted but they didn't believe me until they looked for themselves.

As it was, after a short time it slowly flew ahead and disappeared. Most likely they were simply heading over to Iraq ready for Dubya's brainfart war which began later that month, but it certainly got the mind going.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:39 pm  

Cronus wrote:

Apparently due to information received by the pilot re a suspected device on board.

One man now arrested for a hoax bomb threat. Yikes, I'd have been evacuating myself if that had happened on a flight I was on.

How long will he get for that?

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:58 pm  

Cronus wrote:

Most likely they were simply heading over to Iraq ready for Dubya's brainfart war which began later that month,

Most likely they were simply on exercises, or there was a plane that wasn't responding to ATC.

Most fighter jets have a range of around 1,000 miles, which is a slight problem for crossing the Atlantic.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:07 pm  

Reckon he's earned himself at least 3 years at Brenda's pleasure.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:14 pm  

[quote="Lord God Jose Mourinho"]Most likely they were simply on exercises, or there was a plane that wasn't responding to ATC.

Most fighter jets have a range of around 1,000 miles, which is a slight problem for crossing the Atlantic.[/

In flight re fuelling is rather handy

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:31 pm  

[quote="Euclid"]

what, 4 times in a trip, and that would only be coast to coast.....

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:12 pm  

How do you think they do it then?

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:16 pm  

Euclid wrote:

How do you think they do it then?

on a carrier...hth