Olympic Interception

[Basic Service]

From the Mail Online:
RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Heathrow airliner | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178786/RAF-fighter-jet-scrambled-air-traffic-controllers-lose-contact-Heathrow-airliner.html)

[student88]

That was well worth the read.

Zzz

[boredcounter]

I feel so safe now, what was the cost of that by the way?

[BN2A]

Not the last instance of this occuring over the next few weeks I fear!!

:rolleyes:

[boredcounter]

Indeed and it starts when, the sports days that is......................Groan as a tax payer

[seymoreskye]

Very nicely timed yet expensive showpiece from the goverment i feel.

"Lets demonstrate what we are capable of" tactic just a few days before the event!

Dont tell me another 11 year old boy caused this too!!!! :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

[Zoso]

Christ, it's the Daily Mail ffs. Just don't read it.

[DaveReidUK]

RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Heathrow airliner Mail Online

Be fair, apart from the fact that there was no interception, it wasn't a Heathrow flight, and there was no direct link with the Olympics (apart from the reason for the Typhoons being at Northolt), the Mail got all the facts right. :O

[Buster the Bear]

Fighter scrambled to intercept aircraft ahead of Games | Reuters (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/25/uk-oly-typhoon-adv-idUKBRE86O15220120725?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401)

[hetfield]

BSE................?

[FlightPathOBN]

No, they scrambled a Typhoon....

Did the 737 out run it? :eek:

[fantom]

737?

Anyway, looks like we can get 'hundreds' of pax on a 757 now. Excellent.

[Miken100]

This does seem a bit of a non-event but then I recall one of the problems with scrambling jets in 9/11 was the sheer disbelief there was anything amiss... & I'm sure the RAF were glad of a chance to practise!

Be fair, apart from the fact that there was no interception, it wasn't a Heathrow flight, and there was no direct link with the Olympics

I'm not sure that terrorists in control of a cockpit would really worry about the final destination...

[i_like_tea]

Fantom..

The Boeing 757 - Flight number TCX3125 - was carrying 235 passsengers and eight crew

Read more: RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Thomas Cook airliner carrying hundreds of tourists | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178786/RAF-fighter-jet-scrambled-air-traffic-controllers-lose-contact-Thomas-Cook-airliner-carrying-hundreds-tourists.html#ixzz21fc0NX7X)

I would count 235 has "hundreds"..?

[BN2A]

So another late handover from Brest Control....

Those RAF boys will be mighty busy if they launch every time that happens!!

:uhoh:

[FlightPathOBN]

Sorry...:ugh:

Thought it was a 737...

must have been my lack of control when it comes to Brests

[fireflybob]

You really couldn't make this stuff up!

Orwell must be looking down at us in hysterics.

[Heathrow Harry]

they have to do SOMETHING

Imagine no interceptions needed

Daily Mail 1st Sept 2012

"RAF on London Olympics Jolly at the expense of the Middle Class"

[fantom]

OK, tea, you are correct.

[blaireau]

Your 1000th coming up. Make it memorable!!

[FlightPathOBN]

I thought they were using missile batteries for this....

[Mike-Bracknell]

I thought they were using missile batteries for this....

It was probably at the request of LOCOG to see whether it was an Olympic Airlines flight, and to charge them for improperly displaying the logo.

(them ceasing operations in 2009 would have been a G4S cockup)

[MaximumPete]

The world's gone mad!!!!

[ZimmerFly]

the Mail got all the facts right.

Oh really?


The Typhoons are just one line of defence in a 'ring of steel' around the £9million Games that has come under fire for its 'militarisation'.

What a bargain !...I think £9 Billion is nearer the cost !;)

[FullWings]

I have it on good authority that the fighter was launched because there was some Pepsi on board - this is forbidden within olympic airspace. Luckily, the flight wasn't bound for LHR, so a crisis was averted by our quick-thinking boys in blue...

[BOAC]

Out of interest, is there 'Olympic airspace' at all the other locations? Could we risk the Pepsi going into Manchester?

[Arkroyal]

Looking down at Northolt yesterday, they appear to have added arrester gear.

Why, at what cost?

Having the Tiffies that close is all part of the 'seen to be doing something' attempt. It's not 1940, you know, surely some other well equipped airfield would do.

Worst job of the next fortnight: sweating in a cockpit at Northolt.

[Golf-Sierra]

Shame they can't just have them airborne and flying around London during the games. Would be an additional attraction for the aircraft liking type of people. Seeing jets flying low level along the Thames would be just awesome.

[BN2A]

Under the bridges.... Rattling the big wheel with the sonic booms...

Cooooooooollll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:ok:

[KiloB]

Can a Hunter still be fitted through Tower Bridge with the Rings hanging there?

[Rabina]

RAF pilots "with their fingers light on the trigger", possibly a Daily Mail typo; substitute police for pilot and any Brasilian male for errant airliner .....?:confused:

[B737NG]

I´ve got recently a image where a Typhoon looked into a C130 from the back. Would be quiete scary when that happens to a Airliner, we are not the same breed then AF.... My last encounter of that kind was back in 1997 close to the no fly zone south of Syria on the way to Camp David. The F16 jockeys had fun and we almost wet the pants. Thanks god the plane we had was decorated with Stars and Stripes, N registered, helped to ease the fear, on both sides that night.

[Jazbag]

It's a good training exercise for the RAF pilot... nothing else

[FERetd]

Rabina, I am surprised that you in Switzerland are so knowledgable about triggers - Switzerland having sat on the fence for so many years.

Now the hair spring on a cuckoo clock, that's something you would know about - oh, and chocolate of course.

[LT Selfridge]

And Gold.

You can't hide the big things forever.

[Rabina]

So sorry FERetd, bait not swallowed. Everyone living in Switzerland must obviously be Swiss, just like England being 100% full of Biggles-types.

The topic was the Battle of the East End, part II wasn't it old boy?

[racedo]

2 Fast jets heard over South London on a response about 5 minutes ago.....

[Will Hung]

Typhoon buzzing round Staines / Ashford / LHR 5 mins ago. Then tonked it off to the south-east. The acceleration was awsome !

[Seloco]

I'm pretty sure it came close to Leatherhead too. I wasn't quick enough to get a visual but the noise was impressive.

[STN Ramp Rat]

They went up for a "look see" at a B737 apparently. Possibly a BBJ acording to the spotter lists

[2dPilot]

Yes, they came *very* close to Kingston Hospital, rattled a few windows.
Couldn't actually see them though, only has a view east.
Assuming they came from Northolt(?) then crossing Kingston suggests they were heading south towards Gatwick/South Coast/English Channel.

[A and C]

I got sight of one of them from Tollworth, no 250kt below FL100 for these boys and going up with a truly impressive RoC south eastbound