Posted on 01/23/2016 9:06:08 PM PST by rickmichaels
A terrorist plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.
The jihadist attacks were being planned in the week after the Paris massacre, but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline on an intelligence service watchlist, were intercepted talking about the plot.
Although they used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets, the Arabic transcripts were passed to GCHQ where spies established they were talking about attacks on London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich.
The uncovering of the plan raised the terror alert in the UK and was one factor which led to Operation Templer, involving 10,000 soldiers being deployed to support police on Britain's streets.
The pilots, who were unknown to the authorities but believed to be sympathetic to Islamic State, were using the emergency "Mayday" channel in the belief they were not being monitored.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
I’m surprised that without any fanfare or publicity Muslims haven’t been shunted off into “safe” positions where they could inflict the least damage. The idea of having Muslims still flying planes is ridiculous; Instant Jihad Syndrome often has no symptoms.
“Channel 121”? WTF? Seems the reporter is about as dumb as the towelheads who used it.
The reporter probably means 121.5 MHz, since 243.0 MHz (called the “Guard” channel) is monitored by the military and FAA ground sites only.
BTW, on trans-oceanic flights, when out of range of any VHF controlling facility, the radios are set; one on 121.5 MHz, and the other on 123.45 MHz. The first is for emergency use; 123.45 for chit-chat (some of it operational). Stateside, the FAA will have your butt if you are caught transmitting on 123.45, but if you set a radio to monitor that channel, from time to time you will hear interesting conversations.
The hairs go up on the back of my neck and I assume jihad is imminent wherever a muslime shows up. I would exit a plane that had a muslime pilot.
Thanks for the info.
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