Olympic Interception
 

From the Mail Online:
RAF fighter jet scrambled after air traffic controllers lose contact with Heathrow airliner | Mail Online

That was well worth the read.

Zzz

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

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

:rolleyes:

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

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:

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

Olympic Interception
 

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

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

No, they scrambled a Typhoon....

Did the 737 out run it? :eek:

737?

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

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...

Fantom..

I would count 235 has "hundreds"..?

So another late handover from Brest Control....

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

:uhoh:

Sorry...:ugh:

Thought it was a 737...

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

You really couldn't make this stuff up!

Orwell must be looking down at us in hysterics.

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"

OK, tea, you are correct.

Fantom
 

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