F15 Crash North Sea?

[Munter]

This just popped up in a couple of places.

https://news.sky.com/story/us-f-15-fighter-jet-cra...

Hope all are ok...

[steveo3002]

some military stuff circling the area on freedar right now

[anonymous-user]

on twitter

[Eric Mc]

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

[Mr Pointy]

Eric Mc said:

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

Don't be so fking snarky. It's a press release to provide information & one of the first questions the press are going to ask is how many people were on board. It's a very small percentage of the world's population would know if it were a single seater or not.

[DavieBNL]

Eric Mc said:

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

Snotty comment - why would most people know it's only single seat?

[LotusOmega375D]

Searching. F15 on there now also.

[Starfighter]

Squawk 7700 is the distress code.

If the pilot had the time to change that then it would appear that they had thinking time so hopefully had options available including ejection.

[Garemberg]

Eric Mc said:

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

I hate this place sometimes.

[hammo19]

Firstly I hope the pilot is ok, thoughts go out to them

But I really despair at the inaccuracy of reporting by the media.....wrong plan, wrong Air Force

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/us-air-force...

[surveyor]

Starfighter said:

Squawk 7700 is the distress code.

If the pilot had the time to change that then it would appear that they had thinking time so hopefully had options available including ejection.

The 7700 is not the downed plane but another one, possible cockpit pressurisation issues according to someone I know.

[tr7ster]

I did wonder why there was a US K35R circling outside the usual refuelling areas - presumably joined the search given the location.

[Munter]

hammo19 said:

Firstly I hope the pilot is ok, thoughts go out to them

But I really despair at the inaccuracy of reporting by the media.....wrong plan, wrong Air Force

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/us-air-force...

OT but msn is now being populated by AI not real humans. So...while it was utterly rubbish before, it'll still be a while before it improves.

[Evoluzione]

Garemberg said:

Eric Mc said:

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

I hate this place sometimes.

Slight overreaction snowflake
He's always been a grumpy old git, get over it.

[MikeGTi]

Seems that G-MCGH is back towards land from the potential crash site.

There are a number of vessels visible on Marine Traffic in the vicinity.

ETA: G-MCGE is now outbound, though.. so possibly not the good news I was hoping for..

[tr7ster]

MikeGTi said:

Seems that G-MCGH is back towards land from the potential crash site.

There are a number of vessels visible on Marine Traffic in the vicinity.

G-MCGE heading out to take its place by the looks of things.

[MikeGTi]

tr7ster said:

G-MCGE heading out to take its place by the looks of things.

Yeah, saw that just after I'd posted

There's a gaggle of ships around N54.3514 E001.6864

[geeks]

tr7ster said:

MikeGTi said:

Seems that G-MCGH is back towards land from the potential crash site.

There are a number of vessels visible on Marine Traffic in the vicinity.

G-MCGE heading out to take its place by the looks of things.

G-MCGE was heading out but seems to have disappeared now.

[Narcisus]

Garemberg said:

Eric Mc said:

Glad they confirmed there was only one on board an F-15C. If there were any more people in the cockpit, we might have a clue as to why it crashed.

I hate this place sometimes.

I think Eric was having a dig at poor reporting...

[tr7ster]

geeks said:

G-MCGE was heading out but seems to have disappeared now.

Still shows up on MarineTraffic, but not ADSB for some reason.