From Sky News
Mashood Takwar, from Pakistan International Airlines, told Sky News that 25 minutes before landing Manchester air traffic control* contacted the pilot after apparently receiving some information from British security services. |
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Two men arrested
Channel Four reporting that two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft.
Two arrested after RAF diverts Pakistan jet to Stansted - Channel 4 News |
Rather amusing that the ad under this thread is for "cheap flights to Pakistan". Mmmmm, maybe not!
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Shouldn't laugh, I know, but the BBC News Channel has been showing a live feed from their helicopter over Stansted for the last 15 minutes, panning repeatedly across the airport and it has only just managed to home in on the aircraft's location.
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Shouldn't laugh, I know, but the BBC News Channel has been showing a live feed from their helicopter over Stansted for the last 15 minutes, panning repeatedly across the airport and it has only just managed to home in on the aircraft's location. |
for the last 15 minutes, panning repeatedly across the airport and it has only just managed to home in on the aircraft's location. |
Pia being escorted by typhoons from man to stn
Sky news also saying "source" claims two men tried to enter the flight deck
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Pia being escorted by typhoons from man to stn
A witness speaking in Urdu to Pakistani station Geo TV, said that two men over 6 feet tall tried to enter the pilot's cabin.
Essex Police have confirmed that two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after the plane landed safely at Stansted. |
Maybe it was the crew trying to get back into the cockpit after a kip in J class..........
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Looks like the RH gear went off road as it taxied into the stand too:E or a wide heavy vehicle.
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Stansted is the airport of choice for the UK government to divert aircraft... |
A BBC reporter just said that the pilot 'hit the panic button.' I've now got a vision in my head of two big red buttons in the cockpit with the words PANIC and DON'T PANIC written on them.
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Surely it would be PANIC and CANCEL PANIC? Alternatively, just a PUSH TO PANIC (guarded) switch?
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Dak Man - :ok:
Piltdown, it's been explained that STN is the English airport of choice because ops can carry on and the staff there have been especially trained/briefed on what to do. Do you really think the security services have decided to send potentially dodgy aircraft to STN just to bugger MoL off? I think it's all rather sensible. |
Semantics perhaps but shouldn't the crew have squawked 7500 and not 7700 as reported, or am I out of date on ICE codes?
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7500 = hijack. 7700 = emergency.
So as far as can be ascertained, they used the correct one. |
Semantics again but IIRC 7500 is Interference not hijack, (7600 Comms, 7700 Emergency).
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What is it with these cnuts? We'd an incident on the approach to Kuwait when a passenger started standing up and shouting abuse at other pax. CC managed to get him seated before landing and I asked for police to meet us and arrest the guy whom, at that time, I guessed was an ethnically European Christian having a go at the locals.
By and by I suggested to the Chief of Police that a night in the cooler to teach him some manners might be in order but the Chief was reluctant to comply. Due mainly to curiosity I asked to see the man's passport. the Chief passed it to me and it was British but with an Arabic name; clearly an Islamic convert. Now that all was clear I just asked the Chief to hang onto him long enough for my crew to leave the airport which he obligingly did. Upon our return for departure, our Kuwaiti agent said: "You know why they wouldn't arrest that man? He is Muslim convert." NSS! |
Semantics again but IIRC 7500 is Interference not hijack, (7600 Comms, 7700 Emergency). See Section 2.6 of ENR 1.6 |
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