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