US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel

[KC-10 Driver]

US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3060026/US-Air-Force-refuelling-aircraft-falls-radar-English-Channel.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus)

Hope this is a false alarm.

[Whenurhappy]

Nothing listed on any other news sites.

[Robert Cooper]

Hopefully this is a false alarm. No other reports at present.

Bob C

[G-CPTN]

Express has an image of a Tristar with a caption of C-135:-
US Air Force C-135 jet declares emergency over English Channel | UK | News | Daily Express (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/573651/C-135-US-Air-Force-QID72-military-jet-English-Channel-Boeing-Stratolifter)

[sitigeltfel]

A military aircraft stops painting on FR24.

Shock, horror!

[Kitbag]

The Express pic is surely a KC10, not a Tristar

[Hooligan Bill]

More rubbish from the Mail and Express, newspapers not worthy of wiping your backside with.

[Stratofreighter]

Move on, there is nothing to see here... :rolleyes:
Scramble Messageboard ? Information (http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=114605)

[Stratofreighter]

And now also "officially":

Actually, something DID happen.

RAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely (http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123446539)

News (http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/news/index.asp) > RAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/shared/AFImages/transparent.gifhttp://www.mildenhall.af.mil/shared/AFImages/transparent.gifRAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely

Posted 4/29/2015 Updated 4/29/2015 http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/shared/AFImages/transparent.gif Email story (http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/news/story_email.asp?id=123446539) Print story (http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123446539)

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by Staff Reports
100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

4/29/2015 - RAF MILDENHALL, England -- A KC-135 Stratotanker with call sign QUID 72
experienced an in-flight emergency at approximately 12:20 a.m. today.
It safely returned to RAF Mildenhall at 1:20 a.m.

There were no injuries.

Safety is paramount to the success of our mission. The Air Force's stringent safety standards help ensure the well-being of our people and the communities we interact with.

For more information, contact the 100th ARW Public Affairs office at 01638 545800 or email [email protected].

[mary meagher]

I am intrigued (and reassured) to see at the bottom of the RAF/USAF communication letterhead, among other items, suicide prevention.....
any comment? is this a problem?

[peterperfect]

Its like the stories in many of the media yesterday where the Finnish Navy are dropping "depth charges" and "high explosives" on an unknown underwater object (potentially Russian) in their national waters.

OK, marine sound signals maybe...

LOL
pp

[Willard Whyte]

Express has an image of a Tristar with a caption of C-135:-

The Express pic is surely a KC10, not a Tristar

More rubbish from the Mail and Express, newspapers not worthy of wiping your backside with.

Whatever the picture was, it is now that of a '135.

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/Boeing-C135-jet-573651.jpg

[fleigle]

The report from Mildenhall is a red herring, actually they were testing their new cloaking device.......
:E
f

[ShotOne]

The initial Mail press report was pretty much on the button, why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against? If the principle of a free press is so offensive you could always move to North Korea.

[Tankertrashnav]

Perhaps the rest of us have a different concept of the meaning of the word "disappear" than The Daily Mail (or you?) ShotOne.

[Background Noise]

The initial Mail press report was pretty much on the button, why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against? If the principle of a free press is so offensive you could always move to North Korea.

.. apart from it not departing Amiens and that not being on Planefinder does not mean it wasn't on radar?

[Lonewolf_50]

Perhaps the rest of us have a different concept of the meaning of the word "disappear" than The Daily Mail (or you?) ShotOne. It was bound to happen sooner or later: someone turned on the cloaking device at the wrong time during a mission. :E

[Evanelpus]

why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against?

You aren't being serious, are you? You are actually questioning why someone is dissing the journalistic credentials of the Daily Mail?

[garyscott]

New, more apt news headline . . .
FR24 loses the 'Plot'

:8

[ShotOne]

In the context of this story, yes. It makes clear that the aircraft had landed safely. Back in what some here would term the "good old days" we'd simply never have heard anything of this. That world doesn't exist any more; military operate now in the public eye. It's not the journo's fault, get over it

[smujsmith]

Seems to me that it's a simple case of a military aircraft having an in flight problem, and setting a transponder code that denied further tracking by the likes of Flightradar 24 etc. the media put two and two together and, with the usual lack of feedback from the military, concluded a sum total of five. I suspect as many a professional aviator (not me by any means) will recognise, this incident has been given an excess of media coverage, beyond reality. Please pardon a mere "techie" having an opinion.

Smudge:ok:

[BEagle]

Shouldn't this whole thread be shunted off to the Spotters' Forum?

[Robert Cooper]

Apparently it landed safely at Mildenhall. At least that's the news here.

Bob C

[Hooligan Bill]

The initial Mail press report was pretty much on the button, why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against? If the principle of a free press is so offensive you could always move to North Korea.

Now let me think. Oh yes I remember. I was once involved an incident that got reported in The Mail. The article had one fact in it that was true, the rest was conjecture and bull****.

The purpose of a free press is to publish the truth.

[ShotOne]

In that case, tell us about it Bill. I have no wider agenda regarding the quality or lack of, for Mail journalism; just pointing out that the criticism in this instance appears unfounded.

[melmothtw]

You're quit correct ShotOne - media gets a story wrong, it's 'bloody journalists'; media gets a story right, it's 'bloody journalists'.

[Lonewolf_50]

media gets a story right, it's 'bloody journalists'. Could you provide a link to one of those? :E:}

[SimonK]

Was this one of the Chem Trail flights? Oops. ;)

[melmothtw]

Quote:
Originally Posted by melmothtw View Post
media gets a story right, it's 'bloody journalists'.
Could you provide a link to one of those?

Touché Lonewolf