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I saw something fast and loud leaving our area heading south south east. According to FR24, there's a Voyager from Brize that's just done a circuit over Teesside and the N York Moors.
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Tonights AF1558, lost comms over Leeds in which ZJ911 (Q0000002) intercepted him and subsequently sent ZZ333 (V9U64) up to tank. Escorted into Newcastle and Q jet has gone off for some fuel. Apparently the pilot was heard saying "yes London made us aware of that. Everything is ok we just had a radio control problem" after making comms back with Newcastle
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Looks like the errant Cityjet RJ turned onto a heading of about 080 over Leeds and kept going for about 100 miles before turning back towards us. Strange goings-on. Maybe the QRA shepherded them out to sea when they lost comms, only turning them back towards NCL when contact was re-established?
No, we heard the events unfold whilst operating another flight. The aircraft flew for 20 minutes without speaking to any controllers. After many attempts of contact they started receiving orders to turn right heading east. This was before the intercept. They then heard the transmissions on 121.5 and complied with the order to fly heading 090. Guess they were still escorted into newcastle even though communications were re-established
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Fromm BBC today:
Loud bangs heard in parts of Yorkshire were sonic booms from Typhoon jets scrambled to identify "an unresponsive civilian aircraft", the RAF has said.
The aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, on Monday and helped guide an Air France plane to a safe landing in Newcastle.
People reported their houses shaking at about 21:50 BST after hearing what sounded like two loud explosions.
These were later confirmed to have been sonic booms.
An RAF spokesman said: "Quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft were launched today from RAF Coningsby to identify an unresponsive civilian aircraft.
"Communications were re-established and the aircraft has been safely landed."
Radio problem
Reports suggested the jets had escorted the plane after it went off course.
Air France confirmed that the unresponsive civilian aircraft was one of its planes.
The airline tweeted from its official UK Twitter account: "Air France confirms that due to a radio communication problem AF 1558 had to be accompanied by two British fighter aircrafts according to the procedure.
"The aircraft landed in Newcastle at 22:20 (LT). Safety of clients & crew is an absolute priority."
Loud bangs heard in parts of Yorkshire were sonic booms from Typhoon jets scrambled to identify "an unresponsive civilian aircraft", the RAF has said.
The aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, on Monday and helped guide an Air France plane to a safe landing in Newcastle.
People reported their houses shaking at about 21:50 BST after hearing what sounded like two loud explosions.
These were later confirmed to have been sonic booms.
An RAF spokesman said: "Quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft were launched today from RAF Coningsby to identify an unresponsive civilian aircraft.
"Communications were re-established and the aircraft has been safely landed."
Radio problem
Reports suggested the jets had escorted the plane after it went off course.
Air France confirmed that the unresponsive civilian aircraft was one of its planes.
The airline tweeted from its official UK Twitter account: "Air France confirms that due to a radio communication problem AF 1558 had to be accompanied by two British fighter aircrafts according to the procedure.
"The aircraft landed in Newcastle at 22:20 (LT). Safety of clients & crew is an absolute priority."
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Thomas Cook B767
Today I see TCX are operating Palma to Newcastle (MT/TCX6029 arriving NCL at 12.45) with G-DAJC Boeing 767. Anyone know if this is permanent and which other routes will be 767 - or is this just a "one-off"
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DAJC has diverted to MAN
This is disgraceful, if done purely to have a/c back to base and bus passengers 3+ hours.
If you were to book flights to/from Manchester it would usually be considerably cheaper, so grounds for compensation?!
This happened last week to get an a321aircraft scheduled for Newcastle back to MAN.(although it was first of season to Reus so may have been light on return)
Edit: from FR24:
MT2067 operated by A321 G-TCDL ex Palma has similarly been diverted from Manchester to Newcastle
- Baggage on Belt at NCL so I guess aircraft were switched at Palma
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Please don't believe everything seen on FR24, it's a good tool but not 100% reliable. GTCDL operated to PMI and back this morning as it was always scheduled to. There was never meant to be a 763 on the flight. Also the REU on Sunday was the first op so there was no passengers on the return hence the aircraft positioned back to MAN as it was a MAN based aircraft that positioned in that morning to cover for the tech avion!
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Question maybe travelagent maybe able to answer.
Thomson summer brochures have the flight page as days operation now instead of times and airlines used.
However some of the boxes are blue and some aren't do you know what the meaning is?
Thomson summer brochures have the flight page as days operation now instead of times and airlines used.
However some of the boxes are blue and some aren't do you know what the meaning is?
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I believe it normally signifies if "unconventional" length breaks are permitted, i.e outside of 7/14 nights... Thomson really doesn't seem to like the thought of anyone going anywhere for 10 nights, or God forbid 3-5!!!