Spanish Air Force disrupts BA Gibraltar landing
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Maybe less to this story than the headline suggests..The Gibraltar Chronicle has reported that the Spanish P3 was transiting Gib airspace, under the control of Seville ATC. which it is entitled to do. At some point it did make an alteration of course, presumably ok`d by Seville because the P3 then contacted Gibraltar ATC (unusual for the Spanish Military) and explained their actions.
At that point the BA flight resumed its flight path to Gib and the P3 continued on out of their area
At that point the BA flight resumed its flight path to Gib and the P3 continued on out of their area
There is some merit in what you say Dockwell, though the lack of attention to detail, aka laziness, is so typical of journalism today. In my case, I wonder how much of other items which they report and about which I know far less, are inaccurate.
More worrying is this constant harassment by Spain on all fronts which is clearly government backed - if not government inspired. If this continues, the law of averages suggests that it is only a matter of time before something really unpleasant happens, at which point the excrement really will hit the Xpelair.
I see what you say paully, but clearly something was amiss, otherwise the BA flight would not have had to follow the path it did. One imagines the P3 was heading towards the Med, in which case Spain has ample airspace over that area in which to operate without having to apparently enter the minimal airspace over Gibraltar.
More worrying is this constant harassment by Spain on all fronts which is clearly government backed - if not government inspired. If this continues, the law of averages suggests that it is only a matter of time before something really unpleasant happens, at which point the excrement really will hit the Xpelair.
I see what you say paully, but clearly something was amiss, otherwise the BA flight would not have had to follow the path it did. One imagines the P3 was heading towards the Med, in which case Spain has ample airspace over that area in which to operate without having to apparently enter the minimal airspace over Gibraltar.
Yes I tend to agree with that, airline was BA, stock photo was BA ! Would we be complaining if for example there was a story about "Starbucks", the story includes a stock photo of a Starbucks sign in London, yet the story is about a Starbucks in Birmingham, Eagle eyed or local people may spot that the photo was taken in London but 99.9% will not ! does it really matter anyway as the story was about a BA plane not a specific type of plane (other coffee shops available ..lol)
A more reasonable question would be why a journalist who, as the Daily Telegraph's Madrid Correspondent understandably doesn't claim any aviation knowledge, didn't just ask one of her sub-editors or spend 5 minutes on Google before filing her story.
At least then the penny might have dropped that BA fly several different types of aircraft and don't disgorge 450 passengers at a time at GIB. Or maybe even that the P-3 isn't an F/A-18 or a Typhoon.
