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Fighter Jets Scrambled To Passenger Plane
Sky News ^

Posted on 05/24/2013 6:22:37 AM PDT by UKrepublican

The airline has confirmed it is for security reasons. There are understood to be 297 passengers on board.

The plane was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed near York and headed back out to the North Sea, before travelling south to Stansted.

It is believed to have now landed at the airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; manchester; pakistan; pockeestahn; raf; stansted; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: don-o

Just had earlier today a BA flight from London to Oslo doing an emergency landing this morning. Was the breaking news story when I got up this morning...


21 posted on 05/24/2013 6:56:11 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit

Engines taken out by a flock of birds on that one, plane had to land with damaged engines.


22 posted on 05/24/2013 6:58:40 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: UKrepublican

Two arrests have been made.


23 posted on 05/24/2013 7:01:09 AM PDT by HawkHogan
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Two men arrested on ‘suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft’...


24 posted on 05/24/2013 7:08:16 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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To: seeker41

Sky News reporting ‘sources’ as saying ‘not terrorist incident’.

Drunk?.


25 posted on 05/24/2013 7:21:26 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: Jeff Head

Friends of the President.


26 posted on 05/24/2013 7:23:47 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: CMB_polarization

It’s on MSN.com


27 posted on 05/24/2013 7:31:08 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: the scotsman

Those weren’t birds...they were winged, Muslim demon-spawn


28 posted on 05/24/2013 7:32:42 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: stuartcr

I’m guessing they were Pakistani?


29 posted on 05/24/2013 7:38:28 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: HawkHogan

Throw them into the plane’s engine.


30 posted on 05/24/2013 7:39:15 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: UKrepublican
The leaders in the UK are so anxious to say, "It is not ISlamic Terror," that it is sickening. Same with the Obama administration.

They know better. Heck, anyone watching knows better.

Just like they were so fast to try and say that the soldier who was so horricially killed by the two Islamics on the street the other day, when they ran him down with their car, and then got out and attacked him with a machette and a meat cleaver, and de-capitatied him there in broad daylight, shouting, "Allah Ackbar," were not islamic teror related.

Well that's just pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra.

Islamic Terror on a street in England

Islamic Terror in Boston

Islamic Terror attacks US in Benghazi

Over the last 30 years these types of attacks have been ongoing. They all have one thing in common...you tell me what that is:


31 posted on 05/24/2013 7:41:11 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head

Not in America. More likely nuns.


32 posted on 05/24/2013 8:04:35 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: don-o

No, if he had engine problems, they wouldn’t make him fly all the way from near York back down south to Stansted.

That’s where they escort planes if they have any security concerns about a flight, they have facilities to deal with everything from stroppy drunks to terrorists.


33 posted on 05/24/2013 8:14:08 AM PDT by davemac.439
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To: the scotsman

Damn Muslim birds!!! those Islamist birds are taking over the country!!!


34 posted on 05/24/2013 8:14:08 AM PDT by davemac.439
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To: Jeff Head

Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian with Jordanian citizenship.

The 1972 PanAm 747 was hijacked on a flight from Hong Kong to Saigon by a North Vietnamese sympathizer. The highjack to Cairo was 1970.


35 posted on 05/24/2013 8:19:36 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: the scotsman

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1412517-we-re-fine-thanks-to-the-pilot#TWEET767210

Disturbance on the plane?


36 posted on 05/24/2013 8:38:46 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: RummyChick

Pilots get confused and enter the wrong codes. Happens frequently.


37 posted on 05/24/2013 8:44:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: UKrepublican

What is going on here? FOX blipped in first thing that the Paki plane was being chased by fighters. Seem to have dropped this plane. Instead, just now they tell us of the BA plane sent to Heathrow with bad engine, then proceed to assure us Brits say it is not terror!

Is FOX seriously conflating the Paki plane with the BA?


38 posted on 05/24/2013 8:55:25 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Two trying to charge the cockpit per Fox.


39 posted on 05/24/2013 9:19:13 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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Presser upcoming


40 posted on 05/24/2013 9:20:00 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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