Posted on 11/06/2015 3:43:00 PM PST by tcrlaf
- The Thomson flight from London Stansted only took evasive action - The pilot had spotted the missile speeding through the air - Holidaymakers were not told they had been seconds from disaster - It was just two months before a Metrojet plane crash in Sinai, killing 224
A British plane carrying 189 passengers came within 1,000ft of a rocket as it approached Sharm El Sheikh, it emerged last night.
The Thomson flight from London Stansted only took evasive action after the pilot spotted the missile speeding through the air.
The jet landed safely, and holidaymakers were not told they had been seconds from disaster.
The Department for Transport confirmed the incident took place on August 23 - just two months before a Metrojet plane crashed in central Sinai, killing all 224 on board.
A source said: âThe first officer was in charge at the time but the pilot was in the cockpit and saw the rocket coming towards the plane.
"He ordered that the flight turn to the left to avoid the rocket, which was about 1,000ft away."
They said the five members of cabin crew only found out about the incident after landing.
The âshakenâ staff were offered the chance to stay the night in Egypt, but chose to head straight back to the UK on a flight that took off with no internal or external lights
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In addition, the thousands of MANPADs in the Libyan arsenal is pure fiction. Thanks MNJohnnie.
Oh,my! Just beautiful.
Thanks so much for the geography lesson.
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Rocket attack on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh
""Well, that's certainly news.... And points to a Shoulder-fired Missile.
""If the aircraft was shot down by a MANPAD from Hillary's Libya operation, there could be real hell to pay.""
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How is Hillarys involvment proved?
Isil jihadists seen with new advanced anti-aircraft missile
Manpads in the hands of Isis, are the wages of Obama’s “Arab Spring” in Libya and Hillary Clinton’s lost arms trade fiasco in Benghazi.
Obama destroyed a perfectly stable country, Libya, that was whacking jihadi insurgents. Now they are whacking us with Hillary’s lost scads of Libyan ordnance, now in the hands of ISIS, including MANPADS.
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