If they scrambled 3 jets to fly alongside them within 10 mins of communication being lost that's one hell of a response time. Fair play to em..cleavers said:If it had been in UK airspace, and descending for 10 minutes without communication, then we would most likely have scrambled an escort to go look what the problem was, we have planes on 24/7 standby for just this scenario. The thing is, if the french did this, why have they not said anything ?blumoonrisen said:Reports suggest it was under military escort, although it is the Daily Mail..
I still think everything points to the pilots being out of action for some reason, they'll know that fairly quickly now they have the data recorder, although nothing yet said about voice recorders as far as I have seen.
That's why they're called "quick reaction", ours can pretty well launch within a minute of being scrambled, and will go supersonic if they think there is a significant threat, and any other traffic would be cleared out of their way.blumoonrisen said:If they scrambled 3 jets to fly alongside them within 10 mins of communication being lost that's one hell of a response time. Fair play to em..
BlueHammer85 said:Ducado said:BlueHammer85 said:Should be a aviation policy. No passenger planes over 20 years old to fly.
Really?
No. Just an idea. Back to the drawing board.
Apparently the black box is damaged but they are confident they can still glean enough information from it to aid the investigationcleavers said:If it had been in UK airspace, and descending for 10 minutes without communication, then we would most likely have scrambled an escort to go look what the problem was, we have planes on 24/7 standby for just this scenario. The thing is, if the french did this, why have they not said anything ?blumoonrisen said:Reports suggest it was under military escort, although it is the Daily Mail..
I still think everything points to the pilots being out of action for some reason, they'll know that fairly quickly now they have the data recorder, although nothing yet said about voice recorders as far as I have seen.
Hahaha, does he think they forgot to refuel it in Barcelona ?blue underpants said:Eamonn Holmes on Sky is chuddering on that he thinks the aircraft ran out of fuel as there was hardly any smoke from the crash site!
cleavers said:Hahaha, does he think they forgot to refuel it in Barcelona ?blue underpants said:Eamonn Holmes on Sky is chuddering on that he thinks the aircraft ran out of fuel as there was hardly any smoke from the crash site!
Looks like it, he was going on with himself and the other people in the studio were sat there with their mouths open, Chris Akabusi's face was a picturecleavers said:Hahaha, does he think they forgot to refuel it in Barcelona ?blue underpants said:Eamonn Holmes on Sky is chuddering on that he thinks the aircraft ran out of fuel as there was hardly any smoke from the crash site!
Believed to be 37 year old Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio and her infant son from Fallowfieldblue underpants said:2 of the passengers live in Manchester!
A Spanish woman and her son, they were flying back to Manc via Dusseldorf
blue underpants said:Believed to be 37 year old Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio and her infant son from Fallowfieldblue underpants said:2 of the passengers live in Manchester!
A Spanish woman and her son, they were flying back to Manc via Dusseldorf
cleavers said:If it had been in UK airspace, and descending for 10 minutes without communication, then we would most likely have scrambled an escort to go look what the problem was, we have planes on 24/7 standby for just this scenario. The thing is, if the french did this, why have they not said anything ?blumoonrisen said:Reports suggest it was under military escort, although it is the Daily Mail..
I still think everything points to the pilots being out of action for some reason, they'll know that fairly quickly now they have the data recorder, although nothing yet said about voice recorders as far as I have seen.