Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Intended route was Iceland to Kenya via Southend. Perhaps they though a tech stop en route was preferable to plummeting into the Med.
Over Reading at 15,000 ft didn't suggest a Heathrow inbound to me.
Wasn’t it following instructions from the Typhoon(s) well before it got to Reading and therefore had little control of its choice of height or heading?