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US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel

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US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel
US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel | Daily Mail Online

Hope this is a false alarm.
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Nothing listed on any other news sites.
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Hopefully this is a false alarm. No other reports at present.

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Express has an image of a Tristar with a caption of C-135:-
US Air Force C-135 jet declares emergency over English Channel | UK | News | Daily Express
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A military aircraft stops painting on FR24.

Shock, horror!
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The Express pic is surely a KC10, not a Tristar
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More rubbish from the Mail and Express, newspapers not worthy of wiping your backside with.
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Move on, there is nothing to see here...
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And now also "officially":

Actually, something DID happen.

RAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely

News > RAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely RAF Mildenhall KC-135 Stratotanker lands safely

Posted 4/29/2015 Updated 4/29/2015 Email story Print story












by Staff Reports
100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

4/29/2015 - RAF MILDENHALL, England -- A KC-135 Stratotanker with call sign QUID 72
experienced an in-flight emergency at approximately 12:20 a.m. today.
It safely returned to RAF Mildenhall at 1:20 a.m.

There were no injuries.

Safety is paramount to the success of our mission. The Air Force's stringent safety standards help ensure the well-being of our people and the communities we interact with.

For more information, contact the 100th ARW Public Affairs office at 01638 545800 or email [email protected].
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I am intrigued (and reassured) to see at the bottom of the RAF/USAF communication letterhead, among other items, suicide prevention.....
any comment? is this a problem?
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Its like the stories in many of the media yesterday where the Finnish Navy are dropping "depth charges" and "high explosives" on an unknown underwater object (potentially Russian) in their national waters.

OK, marine sound signals maybe...

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Express has an image of a Tristar with a caption of C-135:-
The Express pic is surely a KC10, not a Tristar
More rubbish from the Mail and Express, newspapers not worthy of wiping your backside with.
Whatever the picture was, it is now that of a '135.

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The report from Mildenhall is a red herring, actually they were testing their new cloaking device.......

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The initial Mail press report was pretty much on the button, why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against? If the principle of a free press is so offensive you could always move to North Korea.
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Perhaps the rest of us have a different concept of the meaning of the word "disappear" than The Daily Mail (or you?) ShotOne.
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The initial Mail press report was pretty much on the button, why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against? If the principle of a free press is so offensive you could always move to North Korea.
.. apart from it not departing Amiens and that not being on Planefinder does not mean it wasn't on radar?
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Perhaps the rest of us have a different concept of the meaning of the word "disappear" than The Daily Mail (or you?) ShotOne.
It was bound to happen sooner or later: someone turned on the cloaking device at the wrong time during a mission.
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why so many negative comments (wiping backside, Bill) against?
You aren't being serious, are you? You are actually questioning why someone is dissing the journalistic credentials of the Daily Mail?
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New, more apt news headline . . .
FR24 loses the 'Plot'

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In the context of this story, yes. It makes clear that the aircraft had landed safely. Back in what some here would term the "good old days" we'd simply never have heard anything of this. That world doesn't exist any more; military operate now in the public eye. It's not the journo's fault, get over it
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