'Incident' London TMA
We were approaching the holding point for departure yesterday at STN and were given a 10 minute delay due to what ATC described as an incident in the London TMA. listening on the approach frequency, ATC were asking traffic to hold and giving 'undetermined' delays. One aircraft asked the nature of the incident and were firmly told by ATC they could t say.
We then heard the 'incident' aircraft coming onto the tower frequency and it became clear it was being shadowed by a Typhoon. the single engine turbo prop landed, taxied off and was met by the police. The typhoon disappeared and shortly afterwards we were cleared for take off and normality was resumed.
I have no idea still of the nature of the incident but would offer a guess that the foreign aircraft set some alarm bells going when it possibly got lost in the London TMA?
Any thoughts?