<<Probably because it left LBA about two hours earlier for Heraklion...thats why not!>>
Well that shows it's out there working instead of sitting on the ground looking pretty!
Unfortunately it's going to be spending far more time on the ground looking pretty- in this, its last month at Leeds, it will be doing less work as the summer charter contracts end before it is sent away to Gatwick. Picture it while you can.

Jet Fighter in to Leeds/Bradford
 

Was driving along A61 Wakefield Road around 1120/01Feb saw what appeared to be a jet fighter on finals in to LBA.

Anybody see it?

Unusual visitor I thought...?!?....:confused:

Cant comment on your particular sighting Captain but can tell you this. Where I work at Edinburgh we are in close proximity to RAF Leucars. As such we act as a diversionary airfield for them should they go "Black" ie runway blocked or poor weather. Due to the differing types of controlling techniques and traffic patterns employed by civil and military controllers, the pilots will occasionally come in to do practice diversions. This allows us to get used to the higher speeds involved in what might be a surveillance radar approach and the pilots to getting used to fitting into a radar pattern for a possible ILS approach. Dont know for sure but maybe EGNM has a similar set up due to its proximity to RAF Leeming.
As an aside to this for those of you from the Edinburgh area. This is likely to become a more common occurence later this year when Leucars will be having its main runway resurfaced.

It could just be doing practice approaches for example we had a tristar at NCL today doing approaches.

I can confirm it was a Jaguar from Coningsby doing an ILS approach onto R32, I saw it coming over Leeds Centre at about 1120.

Loud enough too..:D

Regards.

Not an uncommon sight at any civil airfield; the RAF like to do 'practice diversions' at many airfields they would otherwise be unfamilar with.

Jet2 757 problem at Leeds
 

Hi all,

I was at Leeds Bradford today and saw a Jet2 757 taxi out to Rwy 14 and hold at the holding point for approximately 10 mins. It then taxied back to the terminal and on to stand. After about 20 mins it again taxied back to Rwy 14 and took off.

Then, about 20 mins after that, a Jet2 757 landed and I *think* (though am not 100% sure) it was the same one that had just left (if not the registration was very similar).

Does anyone know what had happened??

Bri

I don't have any details I am afraid. All the registrations on the B757 are similar. G-LSAA/B/C/D/E/F/H/I etc.

Jet 2 have 9 757s now *i think* with 5 at Leeds 3 at Manchester and one at NCL so it just could have been one of there other 757s returning from a flight.

Emergency Landing at Leeds Bradford Airport - Happening Now according to LBC
 

LBC Radio at 15.31 reported that an emergency landing was taking place at Leeds Bradford airport but gave no further details

UPDATE AT 15:53 LONDON (AP) - An airplane carrying 100 passengers safely made an emergency landing at Leeds Bradford International Airport in northern England, a fire official said Saturday.

``The aircraft has landed safely,'' a spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said on condition of anonymity in line with policy. ``They had a problem with one of the engines,'' she said.

emergency at leeds airport
 

100 people on board ,one engine out

Apparently it's a Fokker aircraft? Maybe Austrian? That landed at 1512

Looks like it, departure of same aircraft now delayed "indefiently" apparently

Great, innit?

How long will it be before the media report: "Flight XYZ to Heathrow, carrying 340 passesngers, ran out of inflight meals, but landed safely"?

It won't be long, and of course it'll involve a narrowbody... Every member of the broadcast media involved in scaremongering in the UK should be denied boarding next time their name crops up on the passenger list and considered for prosecution by the CPS or the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland for possible offences against public order...

Aye, right. Bound to happen. In a month of Sundays...:*

I cant believe we are discussing a non event, might just be me but do shipping forums discuss when the MV Blunderbuss loses an engine while in the straits of Hormuz:ugh:

Cynicism
 

I'm in this industry...not a pilot, not cabin crew but a regular commercial guy. It never ceases to amaze me to see the cynicism expressed by some posters-its such a shame! This was a safe emergency landing, it was professional airmanship but lets not dismiss the interest these events will create..sure there are sensationalists but dont tar all journalists or non pilots with the same brush. Educate by example and information!:):ok:

TCX69,

Austrian Arrows = affirmative.

A300Man

A twin with an engine out is a serious enough event to merit some discussion.

However, it would be nice if thread initiators checked first to see if there was already a thread running on the subject (there are 3 now).

By posting this "non event" (really? remember the Arrows Fokker at MUC?) on the Internet - and then perpetuating the thread by commenting on it - you're part of the "broadcast media". I'd even argue that you're worse, simply because of the accompanying hypocrisy.