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

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

[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: ‘The 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 ‘shaken’ 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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[tcrlaf]

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.

[Norm Lenhart]

I’d bet the farm on it.

Which is why the GOP has been so adamant about making Bhenghazi go away.

[Da Coyote]

There is one - and only one - solution to Islam.
You know it.
I know it.
The muzzies know it.
Only liberals do not know it.

[MNJohnnie]

A Manpad cannot reach 30,000 feet

[PhiloBedo]

The wages of the Hillary/Obama Bengahzi operation.

[proxy_user]

The plane’s altitude is not given in the article. If they are five or ten miles from the airport, they would be much lower. That’s the logical place for guys with shoulder-fired missiles to hang out, because they know the planes have to come in for the approach.

My question is why the missile didn’t lock on the plane. I can’t believe they are using primitive non-computerized missiles.

[Diogenesis]

The GOP is 100% involved in a criminal conspiracy of TREASON
with the Clintons and Obama as they delivered
ground to air missiles to al Qaeda to murder Americans.

[Farmer Dean]

You’re right.It also states in the article that the specific altitude of the plane when the attack occurred has not been revealed.So where did you come up with 30,000 feet?

[Diogenesis]

First, not all planes are at 30,000 feet.

Second, Buk missiles go higher
(perhaps a trade for 2 MANPADS?),
and some elevations are already near 3000 feet.

So yes, this could be a series of rocket
attacks, paid for, endorsed, and delivered by the
White Mosque and McCain and Clinton.

[mkleesma]

I’ll say it.
Nuclear weapons.
Ours, or the Russians, or both.
THAT would put the fear of the true God into the Muslim horde worldwide.

[Bogey78O]

Possibly they underestimated the distance and the missile ran out of fuel before hitting the aircraft.

[tcrlaf]

“A Manpad cannot reach 30,000 feet”

Doesn’t have to be “man-portable”.

There were reports of SA-6 Gainfuls from Libya being transferred to the “Syrian Rebels” a few years back, if you will recall.

Simple to mount on the back of a pickup.

I’m still going with a bomb, though.

[I want the USA back]

First I heard. Apparently subhuman towelheads have tried before.
Who are the a$$wholes who didn’t take it seriously?

Remember the savages tried to destroy WTC two times. Nobody cared to notice the first time. These are not normal people. They are uncivilized reptilians. They live to kill normal people.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[W]hy [didn't] the missile didn’t lock on the plane.

I find it incredible that a passenger jet could evade an air to ground missile on approach, especially given that the "passengers were never told". That would have been one head snapping maneuver. Missiles can turn a lot faster than manned aircraft because missiles can withstand 20+ g's, humans cannot.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That’s my take. A psgr airplane dodging a missile would indeed be a head snapper.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— If the aircraft was shot down by a MANPAD from Hillary’s Libya operation, there could be real hell to pay. -—

That would explain why Zippy is downplaying terrorism.

[blam]

"I find it incredible that a passenger jet could evade an air to ground missile on approach, especially given that the "passengers were never told". That would have been one head snapping maneuver. Missiles can turn a lot faster than manned aircraft because missiles can withstand 20+ g's, humans cannot. "

That was my first thought. HUH?

[varyouga]

Homemade rocket launcher in Libya. Now imagine a little help from the Clinton Foundation...

[JimRed]

So, was it a missile or a rocket? So-called journalists don’t know the difference.

[silverleaf]

Sounds like it was a rocket not a missile

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