Aircraft Incident Stansted - RAF planes scrambled.
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2 people arrested0
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2 men allegedly tried to get into the cockpit. Arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft.
Attempted hijack in other words.
Passengers spoken to were unaware of anything & they were told they weren't landing at Manchester due to the weather.0 -
will be interesting to hear the full story0
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Wildly speculating but I'm sure Stansted is the UK's designated airport for hijack situations?0
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I was going to ask why they couldn't just land at Manchester - Wikipedia tells me Stansted is the preferred airport for hijacked aircraft as it's design allows planes to be isolated from the BAU operations.0
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Yes it is Stansted, Bournemouth. Glasgow is as well I believe.Bournemouth Addick said:Wildly speculating but I'm sure Stansted is the UK's designated airport for hijack situations?
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Surprised more is not being made of this.
I guess everyone is a bit more on edge again now but the evidence so far seems to suggest this was not your average emergancy landing.0 -
Mother in law works at Stansted for the police. Ill see what I can find out0
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Re Stansted it appears that the police are treating this as criminal as opposed to terrorist. Perhaps the idiots were joking that they had a bomb or such like.0
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Yes, Stansted is designated as the UK's diversionary airfield for any potential hijacking situation.Bournemouth Addick said:Wildly speculating but I'm sure Stansted is the UK's designated airport for hijack situations?
It has some unique contingencies integrated within its infrastructure that enable special forces/specialist police units to deal with an incident as pragmatically and expeditiously as possible - depending on circumstances of course.
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They've gone very quiet on this. Military jets aren't scrambled for a small disturbance and if two people making threats while attempting to gain access to the cockpit isn't a terrorist incident, I don't know what is...0
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Need to get Smeaton onto them. Don't get any of this shit in Scotland since Jboy set aboot thum.0
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Two people trying to get into the cockpit is a serious offense but cant always be classified as terrorism. For all we know they could have been very drunk and trying to play some flight simulator or something.SE10 said:They've gone very quiet on this. Military jets aren't scrambled for a small disturbance and if two people making threats while attempting to gain access to the cockpit isn't a terrorist incident, I don't know what is...
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Do they even sell booze on Pakistani Airways? Just asking.....RZA said:
Two people trying to get into the cockpit is a serious offense but cant always be classified as terrorism. For all we know they could have been very drunk and trying to play some flight simulator or something.SE10 said:They've gone very quiet on this. Military jets aren't scrambled for a small disturbance and if two people making threats while attempting to gain access to the cockpit isn't a terrorist incident, I don't know what is...
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Good point, they don't provide booze, so scratch that.BIG_ROB said:
Do they even sell booze on Pakistani Airways? Just asking.....RZA said:
Two people trying to get into the cockpit is a serious offense but cant always be classified as terrorism. For all we know they could have been very drunk and trying to play some flight simulator or something.SE10 said:They've gone very quiet on this. Military jets aren't scrambled for a small disturbance and if two people making threats while attempting to gain access to the cockpit isn't a terrorist incident, I don't know what is...
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