Rocket attack on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh

Daily Mail ^ | 11-7-2015 | Richard Mardsen

[rrrod]

just dang...glad all are safe!

[gaijin]

WHAT WAS THE FREAKING ALTITUDE...???

Extremely irresponsible that they didn’t include this.

IT IS IMPORTANT.

[gaijin]

I would have to take realllly close look at the pilot’s story:

He SAW the missile soon enough during a commercial flight over Egypt to take a successful (and apparently unbothersome) jink...??

That’s not quite as fantastic as keeping an eye out for meteorites while playing a game of bridge.

But it IS close.

[gaijin]

SA-6:

Same system which shot down USAF F-16 pilot O'Grady over Bosnia (while at a very high altitude).

Complication: How would you spirit one of these across a border..?

The report said ROCKET, and most rockets are not guided. So a near-miss would suggest the a/c was flying at a VERY low altitude at the time of this alleged miss.

But the complication to THAT is that 90% of journalists use errant words when reporting about weapons matters --we don't REALLY know what the journalist was told.

ANYTHING to a journo is a Glock or AK-47....

[bray]

What difference does it make?

Pray America wakes

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Also important to know if this was a night flight or in daytime/day light. You might be able to see a small/medium sized rocket or missile at night because of its exhaust flames, but during the day?

Why didn’t their radar show up anything, or did it?

Lots of questions but no satisfying answers.

[VeniVidiVici]

high altitude SAM systems have associated radars, hard to conceal in a place Ike Sinai with so much Intel monitoring by so many parties

Which made the drone story so much BS also.

[PIF]

Points to nothing like that. Depends on how high the plane was at. Shoulder-fired are generally not able to go above 16K feet. Certainly not the Russian Igla-S which came from Libya, and about which much has been made without any evidence (MANPADs from Hillary’s Libya operation).

Lower and could have been a simple RPG, which give the sate of the art today, the missile would have hit unless the plane was dropping flares, which it was not. Sounds like a low flying plane - landing or take off and was targeted by some guy with an RPG.

It take a very sophisticated truck mounted system like a Russian Buk or Tor to shoot down an airliner above 18K feet.

[TYVets]

The Department for Transport confirmed the incident took place on August

Is this the first time it has been reported to the public?

[gaijin]

Sharm El-Sheikh airport

If it really involved an unguided rocket which missed by 1,000 feet then it would have been fired CLOSE to the airport, and you can see this is not a super built-up area with lots of cover.

The attackers would be taking a pretty big gamble or they would have to be very stealthy and have a good get-away plan or some collusion with the locals.

[jonascord]

"A Manpad cannot reach 30,000 feet"

I keep hearing that. How high can a U2 fly, or an SR-71?
What is the maximum depth for a Seawolf class hunter-killer?
What is the maximum detect and kill range for a Phoenix anti aircraft missile?
What is the maximun speed of an F-15c?

I don't thing the US military is always honest about their weapon capabilities. Just my opinion, but...

[goodwithagun]

Solution: glassmaker.

[Nifster]

No there won’t. It will be “what difference does it make?”

[umgud]

I don’t trust, respect, or want to interact with any muslim. I recognize that not all muslims are hostile to non-believers while believing there are no moderate muslims and that they all hate us.

Someday islam will push too hard and the west will react (overreact). It wouldn’t take much for airlines to cease flying to islamic countries. This will kill Egypts tourism.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yep...something isn’t right. At least a few drinks would have landed in laps. More likely service carts and flight attendants would be on the ceiling.

[bunkerhill7]

These muzzies aren`t stupoid- the 9-11 terroRists were PILOTS.. Real easy to take Cessna up 10,000 feet and shoot an RPG/MANPAD from the window.?????

[The Numbers Man]

Another Another Dirty Lie By the UK Government and Zionist Mainstream Media.

1000 Feet = 304.8 Meters.

Add the passenger numbers to the distance in meters = 33

Add > 1+8+9+3+0+4+8 = 33

33 is the highest level in Scotch rite Masonry *cough*

[Grampa Dave]

Was the plane landing or taking off?

What was its altitude, when it avoided the missile?

[okie01]

I don't thing the US military is always honest about their weapon capabilities. Just my opinion, but...

[Grampa Dave]

Was the plane landing or taking off?

What was its altitude, when it avoided the missile?