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RAF escorts Pakistan plane to Stansted
BBC ^ | February 7, 2017

Posted on 02/07/2017 7:54:32 AM PST by rdl6989

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To: b4me

If something goes boom it is better to have it do so a Stansted than Heathrow. Don’t want Heathrow shut down for days, now do we?


21 posted on 02/07/2017 8:14:01 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: rdl6989

Batting 8th in the “banned” country batting order: Pakistan!

Seriously, why are they not on that list?


22 posted on 02/07/2017 8:15:46 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: rdl6989

belt-fed bourbons, more likely.


23 posted on 02/07/2017 8:16:25 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Gamecock
Honestly, I think we can rule out Methodists, Mormons, and Mennonites ...

Maybe it's Modalists. Or Monophysites.

24 posted on 02/07/2017 8:17:35 AM PST by NorthMountain (AP is fake news)
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To: rdl6989
I'm sure they're circling over the North Sea, waiting for a U.S. Federal court to decide if the British government can impose "extreme vetting" in case of a suspicious person or object on board.

/sarcasm off/

25 posted on 02/07/2017 8:22:25 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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why not just land at heathrow?

You don't want to disrupt your major international airport and hub (best known for inadequate facilities) Third busiest airport in the world (passenger count). Tie up one of its two runways, and you disrupt schedules world wide. And they don't really have adequate remote parking.

While Stanstead only has one runway, it does appear to have some remote parking. It is a hub for Ryanair. Southend would seem to make the most sense of the metro London commercial airports.

26 posted on 02/07/2017 8:35:47 AM PST by PAR35
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To: RummyChick; Jim Robinson

How much $’s/money do the Muslim countriesl pay the international and American media to lie about when Muslims do things like this.

If you, Jim or I did something like this on a plane.
The mediots would shout, “Pro Trump/Free Republic/Conservative terrorist try to take over plane for weeks.”


27 posted on 02/07/2017 8:39:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (So called news that never happened, did not nor will happen. It doesn't even qualify as fake news!)
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To: NorthMountain

Mithraists? Mazdaites?


28 posted on 02/07/2017 8:41:42 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: VanShuyten

Moonies asking for donations?


29 posted on 02/07/2017 8:48:09 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: rdl6989

Two jets? That’s half their fleet.


30 posted on 02/07/2017 8:55:06 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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31 posted on 02/07/2017 8:55:27 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Batman11

Trump spoke about Obama giving him a dire warning of an entity that was not China or Russia or Iran. Trump wouldn’t say, but speculators first said N. Korea but one news consultant said no, Pakistan.


32 posted on 02/07/2017 9:30:13 AM PST by Cold Heart
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airports just 50-60 miles apart? why not just land at heathrow?

It's standard procedure to divert to Stansted when there's this kind of incident. There's a remote corner of the airfield set aside for the purpose, and all the airport services are specially trained to deal with it.

33 posted on 02/07/2017 10:06:15 AM PST by Winniesboy
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