Joon/AF218 vanished from FR over Iran
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Joon/AF218 vanished from FR over Iran
AF218 CDG-BOM began descending and diverting from course over Iran squawking 7700. Had descended to approx FL110 and disappeared from FR.
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Don't know.
Looking at the data linked here it appears that on some days AF218 overflies Iran, on others it goes over Iraq:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af218
There are probably a lot of Desi's with U.S. passports on that flight since it is a popular Delta codeshare.
KWI is a few minutes further from the divert point, it would seem that something urgent caused them to go to IFN.
Looking at the data linked here it appears that on some days AF218 overflies Iran, on others it goes over Iraq:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af218
There are probably a lot of Desi's with U.S. passports on that flight since it is a popular Delta codeshare.
KWI is a few minutes further from the divert point, it would seem that something urgent caused them to go to IFN.
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From the Express in the UK:
From FR24's Twitter feed:
Air France emergency: AF218 disappears from radar after declaring emergency over Iran
AIR France flight AF218 vanished from radar after declaring an emergency over Iran, air traffic control has confirmed before the plane made an unscheduled landing sparking panic.
From FR24's Twitter feed:
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AF218 airborne again on the way to Jebel Ali, UAE. They are cruising at FL250 which suggests to me a pressurization or pack issue. Or, perhaps some O2 masks were used on the previous sector for the divert?
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Air France emergency: AF218 disappears from radar
In an ideal world, one might hope that the Daily Express would "disappear from radar".
Air France emergency: AF218 disappears from radar after declaring emergency over Iran
It's bizarre, isn't it? A French airliner makes an emergency landing in Iran, and still someone manages to put an anti-American slant on the event.......
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Or did they use the BA flight to get people into Kuwait? British intelligence had notably more success in operating in Kuwait during the war than did their American counterparts: did they succeed in infiltrating agents in at the last moment? Some of the people caught on the last flight believed that to be the case.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-1537655.html
Whether anything "mysterious" went on with the 149 or whether it was a massive stuff up and poor judgement up I'll leave to others, but I do know the 149 story is one that has grown in the telling, especially by those who weren't there ( over the years I've worked with a handful of those who were there..).
The Independent article you've linked to spells out all the possibilities, not just the claims of intelligence gathering, and is worth reading in full,
Now back to Joon/AF.
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