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  • 27-09-2013 2:18pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭


    nice one arrived today @ 1340L
    http://flic.kr/p/gbFJMa


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Just took off.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭airbusa320


    Any idea why it was here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    I was just about to open a thread on this... I work in Citywest and I'm used to planes taking off and landing in Baldonnel, but this one sounded big, so checked it out on flightradar24.... I was surprised to see it was a 757.

    Seems to be a Russian plane. Moscow - Baldonnel - Moscow. Would be interested to find out why it was chartered etc! I've never seen an aircraft of that size land in Baldonnel before....


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    37,000ft over Austria at the moment. MOV9695.

    I'm guessing it's carrying troops for UNDOF.

    Edit: And now over Greece.

    256a14111c63de45ea9a4735c348156b.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭martinsvi


    whoa, you don't see a lot of western planes with russian regs

    Oh noes.. descending towards Damascus, Syria.. definitely not on holidays then..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,020 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Took the first load of Irish troops on peacekeeping to the Syrian border


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,561 ✭✭✭andy_g


    Nice looking 757, however i thought it was in to test if Casement was worthy of becoming Dublin's new Airport :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭DieselPowered


    How does a contract like this work to move (Irish) troops?
    Just wondering if an aircraft could be leased out closer to home? Are Aer Lingus ever in the thinking to be involved and use internal resources?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,020 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Its organised by the UN so the Government have no part in the contract for the airline who fly the troops to where they are going to, the US flew them out several times from Baldonnel


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Landed in Beirut, according to the Irish Times.
    Most of the Irish soldiers flew out from Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, to Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.

    At first light yesterday, the contingent of 89 personnel moved through Lebanon and Syria in an armed convoy.

    They arrived at the Camp Faouar headquarters on the Golan Heights last night and joined an advance party of 26 soldiers who had deployed to Syria on September 21st.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/irish-troops-deployed-to-golan-heights-in-war-torn-syria-1.1544007


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