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[PhilMary]

Ok you experts, what this flyer doing?

 

[Nirvanauk]

Ok you experts, what this flyer doing?
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Playing?

 

[Otter Spotter]

Ok you experts, what this flyer doing?
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It’s a glider G-IAMN obviously doing a long flight from Denbigh

 

[Otter Spotter]

One his way home now

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[Nirvanauk]

So what’s this guy doing?

One his way home now

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If you look at the yellow plane he seems to be going up and down. cant post a photo as it says it’s to dam large!!

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[Otter Spotter]

So what’s this guy doing?

If you look at the yellow plane he seems to be going up and down. cant post a photo as it says it’s to dam large!!

His full flight on ADS-B, you will see that he thermalled a large number of times to get height.

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[PhilMary]

His full flight on ADS-B, you will see that he thermalled a large number of times to get height.

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Glider makes sense, going round in circles looking for/using thermals.

But, I still think he'd be quicker on the bus.

 

[Nirvanauk]

I meant the yellow observer plane of Scarborough.

 

[Otter Spotter]

Glider makes sense, going round in circles looking for/using thermals.

But, I still think he'd be quicker on the bus.

Yeh, but the view out the window would not be the same

 

[makems]

Some exercise going on. There are 5 Drakens in the air with another lined up on the runway. Heading out into the North Sea between Whitby and Scarbrough. Noisy buggers going right over our house.

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[icantremember]

Phew, he missed me ....

..... what's flying at over 70,000 ft?

 

[nicholsong]

Phew, he missed me ....
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..... what's flying at over 70,000 ft?

Probably got his QNH set incorrectly - something like 750Hpa

I know, I know - above transition altitude he should be on 1013 Hpa]

 

[brocola]

That callsign doesn’t seem to have the best track record

Pioneer 300 Pioneer, G-EKIM, 4 March 2013

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[Otter Spotter]

Could be a U-2 flying out of Fairford, height and speed about right if he is going back in.

 

[monzer]

Think this guy is currently circling threatening to purposefully crash in to a US shopping mall...

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[PhilMary]

I think he's had one too many.
Edit day. Sorry I didn't realise you were serious. I just saw this.

 

[Janine]

Think this guy is currently circling threatening to purposefully crash in to a US shopping mall...

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Pilot circling US city threatens to crash on Walmart

Police in Tupelo, Mississippi say they have been in contact with the person flying the aircraft

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[monzer]

If I remember correctly this is not the first time a plane has been stolen and used in a threatening manner over there. I think the last wannabe pilot was persuaded to land safely.

 

[Janine]

If I remember correctly this is not the first time a plane has been stolen and used in a threatening manner over there. I think the last wannabe pilot was persuaded to land safely.

The flight doesn't appear to have ended at an airport.....

 

[monzer]

The flight doesn't appear to have ended at an airport.....

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Be a matter of time before we find out what happened. Was that altitude showing zero there?

In the mean time another stratofortress playing around southern England. I'd love to see one of them in the flesh.

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[Janine]

Be a matter of time before we find out what happened. Was that altitude showing zero there?

In the mean time another stratofortress playing around southern England. I'd love to see one of them in the flesh.

I clicked on playback.

 

[monzer]

Landed safely according to sky news. I doubt this guy will be back to work at the airport anytime soon.

 

[HarryML7]

Surprised the Yanks didnt shoot him down.

 

[monzer]

Surprised the Yanks didnt shoot him down.

I'd imagine it was being seriously considered

 

[raysalaugh]

Surprised the Yanks didnt shoot him down.

Yeah, but it would be how many other planes they shoot down as well.

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[monzer]

Yeah, but it would be how many other planes they shoot down as well.

Huh?

 

[raysalaugh]

Huh?

They call it friendly fire, the Americans are well known for being gung ho

 

[monzer]

Very strange...

Private plane crashes off coast of Latvia after NATO jets scrambled

The aircraft was reportedly due to land in Cologne but headed out over the Baltic Sea, where it eventually crashed.

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[nicholsong]

It is difficult to make any real assessment of what happened at this stage.

He had reported pressurisation problems when over Spain. If he was at high altitude at this point it may be that in dealing with the problems he did not don his oxygen mask quickly enough, or forgot to turn on the flow, and suffered incapacitation from lack of oxygen.

Since the aircraft continued flying at FL 360 until it crashed the problem presumable occurred at that level, in which case he would have had about 5 minutes to don his mask. He was flying single crew, as this model of Citation is cleared for that, so maybe his workload with the problem was very high.

Similar crashes have happened like this e.g. Helios Airways which crashed in Greece.

 

[icantremember]

I reckon this must be a control line version of the C130 ... has been going around in circles for ages

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