Olympic Interception
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Olympic Interception
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From: Hopping
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!!!!
"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!!!!
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Olympic Interception
RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Heathrow airliner Mail Online
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From: Ormskirk
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!
I'm not sure that terrorists in control of a cockpit would really worry about the final destination...
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
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From: England
Fantom..
I would count 235 has "hundreds"..?
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
Read more: RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Thomas Cook airliner carrying hundreds of tourists | Mail Online
