Omg wtf was that loud bang?

[BenGismo]

Its been confirmed as RAF typhoons on a QRA, some people even saw them.

All the kids on our street want them to do it again! (me included)

[Pesty]

Doh sorry was on Facebook shoulda checked the date

[Tonsko]

Russian bombers being cheeky again maybe?

[Pesty]

BenGismo said:

Its been confirmed as RAF typhoons on a QRA, some people even saw them.

All the kids on our street want them to do it again! (me included)

Yeah bit of warning first though

[30v]

QRA after scheduled Paris-Newcastle flight lost all communications...

[EricE]

up to date info at https://twitter.com/EGXCinfo

[Nom de ploom]

Qra typhoons x two and tanker up for fueling.

We're in south leeds and heard three bangs thought elida Gibbs had gone up!

[Pesty]

EricE said:

up to date info at https://twitter.com/EGXCinfo

Cheers.

[Zad]

Twitter now seems to have imploded, maybe it was the sound of a server farm going kerboom...

[bigkeeko]

People complaining about their kids being woken as they have school the next day and their cats being frightened.

WTF? So much for national defence. This country is going soft.

[Pesty]

People will complain about anything. It's pretty cool

Damn it not fair those guys get paid for that too. Then again if terrorist hmmmm anyway


Wtf is this picture from that Twitter showing?

[EricE]

this seems to be the flight in question (source: twitter)

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af1558/...

[dave_s13]

Say you have a flight that's gone silent and they fire up the typhoons to check it out.

What would they actually do to the errant airliner? Is it better in terms of impact damage to blow the thing out of the sky or what? I can't think of any strategic targets you'd want to fly a passenger jet into round this way though.

[MitchT]

Didn't hear a thing in Bingley.

[Zad]

Yes, they would do exactly that. They may, in extremis, take it out. Better 100 dead people than a city centre / hospital / football stadium.

[DoctorX]

EricE said:

this seems to be the flight in question (source: twitter)

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af1558/...

Interesting route. That was quite cool, shook the house. Again please!

[djfaulkner]

Zad said:

Yes, they would do exactly that. They may, in extremis, take it out. Better 100 dead people than a city centre / hospital / football stadium.

Wouldn't shooting down a plane over a populated area, cause more deaths than if it was hi-jacked and crashed?

[///ajd]

EricE said:

this seems to be the flight in question (source: twitter)

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af1558/...

that is a quite a dogleg in the route!

[giblet]

I was driving at the time and just assumed the noise was from the large metal box I was transporting

[Zad]

djfaulkner said:

Wouldn't shooting down a plane over a populated area, cause more deaths than if it was hi-jacked and crashed?

That's why we have human beings in the fighter jets, so they can make informed decisions.