Kuwait Airlines Turns Around
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If nothing else it's interesting. It came into LHR without an emergency transponder code and according to FR24 it was over Frankfurt when it turned back.
Wrong airport for a hijack, lots of suitable places to land for an emergency. Do Kuwait have an engineering base in LHR? Most likely explanation. (For now at least.)
Wrong airport for a hijack, lots of suitable places to land for an emergency. Do Kuwait have an engineering base in LHR? Most likely explanation. (For now at least.)
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Spot on PC id say. STN and PIK are designators in the UK for hostile flights. This is all off the back of the attacks yesterday. Every in flight emergency will be a "threat" for the next few weeks !!!
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But why London, why not Frankfurt, or Zurich, or Munich or.........
Why fly an hour and a half back the way you came.
Also looks like United from BRU to Chicago (UA973) is in the process of diverting too. Heading south over York, maybe towards STN???
Is there something going on that the authorities are covering up?? Armed forces day and all that!!!!
Why fly an hour and a half back the way you came.
Also looks like United from BRU to Chicago (UA973) is in the process of diverting too. Heading south over York, maybe towards STN???
Is there something going on that the authorities are covering up?? Armed forces day and all that!!!!
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Is there something going on that the authorities are covering up??
Twiglet & brakedwell, nice ones!
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For goodness sake! Dozens of aircraft divert every day for one reason or another. Most are medical diversions. Some are technical but not to the extent that they have to divert to the nearest airport. Technical problems can be of a nature which, for a variety of reasons already explained many times on these forums, requires the aircraft to return to it's base airport, departure airport or an airport where they have engineers and spares at hand.
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Neither conspiracy theorist nor ostrich. One sentence does not make someone either.
But aren't we talking about a medical emergency here, not a base airport, departure airport, or an airport where they need engineers or spares. It also appears that Kuwait Airlines flys to and from FRA anyway. I only asked why London, and is what rhetorical, as I'm sure that you, nor anyone on here, doesn't have the answer.
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For goodness sake! Dozens of aircraft divert every day for one reason or another. Most are medical diversions. Some are technical but not to the extent that they have to divert to the nearest airport. Technical problems can be of a nature which, for a variety of reasons already explained many times on these forums, requires the aircraft to return to it's base airport, departure airport or an airport where they have engineers and spares at hand.
For goodness sake! Dozens of aircraft divert every day for one reason or another. Most are medical diversions. Some are technical but not to the extent that they have to divert to the nearest airport. Technical problems can be of a nature which, for a variety of reasons already explained many times on these forums, requires the aircraft to return to it's base airport, departure airport or an airport where they have engineers and spares at hand.
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Perhaps Kuwaiti had a crew ready to fly the aircraft onwards to Kuwait today from LHR? A divert may have put the original crew out of hours, sensible to divert to an airport that has the same type operating there?
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But aren't we talking about a medical emergency here
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