PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Aer Arann plane forced off course
View Single Post
Old 23rd Sep 2003, 03:16
  #1 (permalink)  
EI-WAT
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Waterford Ireland
Age: 38
Posts: 100
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Aer Arann plane forced off course

Taken From RTE NEWS:
September 22, 2003

(19:54) Aer Arann says that two military aircraft were detected near one of its planes, forcing it to move off its flight path this afternoon, shortly after take off from Edinburgh Airport.

The company has said that on-board equipment detected the two planes, and Scottish Air Traffic Control advised the pilot of Aer Arann flight RE464 to descend immediately to a lower altitude as a precaution.

The plane landed safely at its destination, Cork Airport, at 15.45. None of the 32 passengers or crew suffered any injury.


Sound intresting anyone got ant comments on this


EI-WAT
EI-WAT is offline