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Old 20th Jul 2017, 08:05
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Strange Flight GoldCoast This Afternoon

Sounds a bit crazy... But whilst hanging out the washing....

Gold Coast: 5:10pm in Arundel - A Brown/Orange plane (jet), was heading NorWest'ish very low and making no sound. I'd guess it's height would have been no more than 1k at most. Looked like a normal small bodied jet (sort of size that flies from BNE to MEL/SYD). But certainly it was a Brown/Orange colour. No standout tail image that I could see.

In my 10 years here I have never seen a plane heading that way. We have the Southport airport close by and see many regular flights of 152's etc and the helicopters etc...
Which made me wonder about these aircraft, as they normally take off and land with a South/North direction.

I said to the missus "That's strange...". I went inside to find the iPhone and back outside watching this plane heading in to the setting sun, I opened up Plane Finder and this aircraft didn't show up.

Various other planes were up, Virgin, Q and so on. But not this plane...

Anyone have a guess as to what it was?
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