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RAF Jets Escort Plane Into Stansted Airport

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  • 24-01-2011 4:42pm
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    RobitTV
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    A British man has been arrested after a passenger plane was diverted to Stansted Airport under an RAF escort, police have confirmed.
    The Etihad plane was travelling from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow but was diverted when a passenger began making threats.
    Two RAF fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the aircraft as it landed just before midday.
    Stansted is the pre-designated airport in the UK to deal with all security-related issues such as hostage taking and hijacking.
    source


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    #2
    landsleaving
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    Up the RAF!


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    #3
    starbelgrade
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    Escorts.

    Just a fancy word for hookers.


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    FatherLen
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    hookers.
    just a fancy word for crack whores.


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    TeddyTedson
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    10 years after 9/11 and a lot of stuff going on in planes and Airports today.
    Jim Corr is going to have a field day about this.


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    landsleaving
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    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    10 years after 9/11 and a lot of stuff going on in planes and Airports today.

    Travel, mostly


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    TheZohanS
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    FatherLen wrote: »
    hookers.
    just a fancy word for crack whores.

    Crack whores.

    Just another fancy word for Leitrim girls.


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    Dravokivich
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    FatherLen wrote: »
    hookers.
    just a fancy word for crack whores.

    Crack Whores...

    ...just fancy words for Yore Ma!


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    hal9000
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Up the RAF!

    yes planes are generally meant to go up


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    Duggy747
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Crack Whores...

    ...just fancy words for Yore Ma!

    Yore Ma!

    ...just another fancy word for your poor doting mother


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    TeddyTedson
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Travel, mostly
    LUL, :pac::pac:

    I remember when terrorism was about a few Germans taking over the Nakatomi Plaza and make big monies.
    Now it all about religion...:(


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    landsleaving
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    hal9000 wrote: »
    yes planes are generally meant to go up

    I'd say they go down just as much.


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    Stinicker
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Travel, mostly

    Maybe someday you will join the Mile High club. Poor chap


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    Fratton Fred
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    I'd say they go down just as much.
    Leitrim girls?


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    Nephew
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    Up the RAF!

    Ooh ah up the RAF. Say ooh ah up the RAF.


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    RobitTV wrote: »
    A British man has been arrested after a passenger plane was diverted to Stansted Airport under an RAF escort, police have confirmed.
    The Etihad plane was travelling from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow but was diverted when a passenger began making threats.
    Two RAF fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the aircraft as it landed just before midday.
    Stansted is the pre-designated airport in the UK to deal with all security-related issues such as hostage taking and hijacking.
    source


    So they send two fighter jets, but there was NO THREAT???

    'However, in a statement an Etihad Airways spokeswoman has tried to play down the significance of those threats.
    She said: "The flight, EY19, was diverted because of a passenger. The flight was diverted from Heathrow to Stansted. This was done to offload a disruptive passenger."
    The spokeswoman added: "It was a question of inappropriate comments made on the flight and a disruptive passenger.
    "There was no threat to the safety of the aircraft or the passengers."'


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    chalkitdown
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    The real question is what are two fighter jets going to do in the instance of a real threat? Kill everyone on board?


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    chalkitdown wrote: »
    The real question is what are two fighter jets going to do in the instance of a real threat? Kill everyone on board?

    I think so. I think they would just shoot the plane down. Thats my understanding of it.


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    Dravokivich
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    Jake1 wrote: »
    The flight was diverted from Heathrow to Stansted. This was done to offload a disruptive passenger."

    IE - From 1 side of London to the other...

    Wonder what difference that made over all...


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    flyton5
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    chalkitdown wrote: »
    The real question is what are two fighter jets going to do in the instance of a real threat? Kill everyone on board?

    Stop the guy on board from blowing the plane up. Or kill everyone in the act of trying. I salute them...


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    Nephew
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    chalkitdown wrote: »
    The real question is what are two fighter jets going to do in the instance of a real threat? Kill everyone on board?

    That, or f*ck the guy out of the emergency exit.


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    JohnathanM
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    IE - From 1 side of London to the other...

    Wonder what difference that made over all...

    IIRC the airport they diverted to is the training ground for counter-terrorist operations on aeroplanes.


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    chalkitdown wrote: »
    The real question is what are two fighter jets going to do in the instance of a real threat? Kill everyone on board?
    A good marks man in a fighter jet could easily take out the culprit if he knew where he was positioned in the plane. :p


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    Kasabian
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    Jake1 wrote: »
    So they send two fighter jets, but there was NO THREAT???

    'However, in a statement an Etihad Airways spokeswoman has tried to play down the significance of those threats.
    She said: "The flight, EY19, was diverted because of a passenger. The flight was diverted from Heathrow to Stansted. This was done to offload a disruptive passenger."
    The spokeswoman added: "It was a question of inappropriate comments made on the flight and a disruptive passenger.
    "There was no threat to the safety of the aircraft or the passengers."'

    Why don't they just decend to a safe altitude and throw disruptive people out, saves on all the drama and sends a clear message to behave on a plane as people are generally terrified of anything out of the ordainary these days.


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    marzic
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    IE - From 1 side of London to the other...

    Wonder what difference that made over all...

    I think that because it was likely to be a plane carrying many middle eastern people that if they shot it down the over west london it might be seen as racism, y'know, Ali g is from Stains(very near HRW)! Stanstead is kinda out in the sticks ergo no people of ethnic diversity, init?:D


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    Fratton Fred
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    marzic wrote: »
    I think that because it was likely to be a plane carrying many middle eastern people that if they shot it down the over west london it might be seen as racism, y'know, Ali g is from Stains(very near HRW)! Stanstead is kinda out in the sticks ergo no people of ethnic diversity, init?:D

    Is it coz I's black?

    Or could it be something to do with stansted's proximity to Colchester?


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    marzic
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Is it coz I's black?

    Or could it be something to do with stansted's proximity to Colchester?

    yes/no and maybe.


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    Sisko
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    flyton5 wrote: »
    Stop the guy on board from blowing the plane up. Or kill everyone in the act of trying. I salute them...

    If the Americans were quicker to react and intercepted those planes with F-16's back in 2001, a lot less people would be dead and the towers would still be there.

    Its one of those horrible decisions. But yes those fighters are there in case someone takes control of the plane. I imagine the decision to fire on the plane in such a case has been made much easier after 9/11.


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