Passenger plane flies into RAF 'war games'

[Marty63]

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/02/09/passenger-plane...

[anonymous-user]

Some menopausual sensationalist windbag who doesn't know anything aobut flying but went on a 737 once and listened to an ex-Red Arrow at the WI said:

According to the Daily Mail, the Tornado formation leader was criticised as "disappointing" for choosing to "continue the simulated attack... despite having been informed that there was traffic on approach to the airfield".

It must be true.

[ninja-lewis]

Crossflow Kid said:

It must be true.

Actually that bit is lifted from the UK Airprox Board report:

UKAB said:

The HQ Air Ops Member apologised for not having provided timely comment. He informed the Board at the meeting that in his view this incident occurred because of a breakdown in communication during the planning and coordination phase of a major exercise. Further it was disappointing that the Tornado formation leader chose to continue the simulated attack profile at Stornoway despite having been informed that there was CAT traffic on approach to the airfield. A safer option would have been to call ‘knock it off’ and avoid the ATZ once it became apparent that the area was not, as they had been led to believe, clear of civilian traffic.

So fair play to AOL. What is funny though is how the Daily Mail report, linked by AOL (the AOL article is mostly direct quotes from the UKAB report), manages to confuse "black Hawk" for "Black Hawk" in their illustrations.

Actual:


What "Some menopausual sensationalist windbag who doesn't know anything aobut flying but went on a 737 once and listened to an ex-Red Arrow at the WI" and her picture editor thought:

[anonymous-user]

ninja-lewis said:

Actually that bit is lifted from the UK Airprox Board

I don't doubt that, but I always struggle to listen to the DM when it comes to their interpretation of any aviation documents or reports. To anyone with even the slightest insight in to aviation, the UKAB report reads in a measured tone and identifies shortcomings and areas for improvement.
To the Mail it reads as "It was the military, in aircraft, so it must have been really really dangerous but they probably just laughed about it as they jeopardised the lives of hundreds of orphans"

[PaulG40]

Something out of Nothing then!