Flightradar24 Thread Part II

Shannon Control

Not too sure. The breaking news website got that info from a post last page.

snubbleste

RT picking up de Indo
www.rt.com/news/329959-istanbul-plane-bomb-threat/

Shannon Control

http://www.flightradar24.com/RYR1/89f15f7 RYR1 inbound to NOC. O'Leary might just open the door and give them the finger then depart again.

EchoIndia

snubbleste wrote: »

RT picking up de Indo
www.rt.com/news/329959-istanbul-plane-bomb-threat/

Indo article gleaned from monitoring ATC and FR24. Low-cost journalism all-round.

JCX BXC

May I ask OP, why did you think Dublin? Was it originally requested by crew or just a mistake?

Pat Dunne

EchoIndia wrote: »

Indo article gleaned from monitoring ATC and FR24. Low-cost journalism all-round.

I don't quite get the point you're making, the sources used by the journalist are very accurate.

The article in my opinion, is in no way sensationalist and portrays a good understanding of the emergency procedures put into place by SNN.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/transatlantic-jet-makes-emergency-landing-at-shannon-amid-bomb-threat-34391491.html

Transatlantic jet makes emergency landing at Shannon amid bomb threat
Pat Flynn

A transatlantic passenger jet made an emergency landing at Shannon this morning following a bomb threat
Turkish Airlines flight TK-34 departed Houston, Texas at 9.07pm local time on Saturday (4.07am Irish time Sunday) and was due in Istanbul, Turkey at around 3.45pm Irish time.
There were 227 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777-300 jet.
It's understood that the crew became aware of the bomb threat after a written note was discovered on board. The crew informed their operations centre who in turn alerted authorities in Ireland.
The pilot requested permission to divert and land at Shannon and was cleared to reroute to the mid west airport.
With the flight still almost two hours from Shannon, the airports emergency plan was put into action.
Units of the local authority fire service from Shannon and Ennis were sent to the airport as back up to the airport's own fire and rescue service. Ambulances from Ennis and Limerick were also mobilised along with Gardaí.
The Irish Coast Guard was also alerted to the incident and placed the RNLI lifeboat based at Kilrush on standby until the flight had safely crossed the west coast.
At around. 10.20am Irish time, the crew made radio contact with controllers at the Irish Aviation Authority's North Atlantic Communications Centre at Ballygirreen in Co Clare.
The crew issued a Pan-Pan distressed call and requested permission to dump fuel over the Atlantic to ensure they touched down within safe landing weight levels.
The flight landed safely at around 11.02am.

Calina

EchoIndia wrote: »

Indo article gleaned from monitoring ATC and FR24. Low-cost journalism all-round.

I'd tend to disagree with this. Did you want them to go down to Shannon and into an ATC tower itself or what?

Shannon757

Anyone going out to see it?

highlydebased

https://twitter.com/S118869/status/691239180593049601

JCX BXC

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Hopefully another costly hoax.

Can anyone tell me why the plane will only be inspected after its actual time to land in Istanbul will have passed?

This is the quote from Breaking News....

The jet will then remain parked until its scheduled flight time to Istanbul elapses. Authorities will then inspect the aircraft and speak to the crew.

In my head I imagine the tip may have added that the bomb will go off before it reaches Istanbul or something like that, so its on a timer. After the arrival time has passed any timer will likely have expired.

sharkman

Carnacalla wrote: »

May I ask OP, why did you think Dublin? Was it originally requested by crew or just a mistake?

I believe Dub was requested by crew, then changed to SNN around 10.15 .

Locker10a

EIN911 just went around at NOC ! Is there weather there ?

Shannon Control

20 knot crosswind so a bit of a breeze alright. Nothing drastic.

EDIT: Metar hadn't updated for me, apologies.

JCX BXC

ATC wind 180 degrees 23kts G 31kts. If windshear was also present then it's well enough to make it unstable.

coffeepls

Locker10a wrote: »

EIN911 just went around at NOC ! Is there weather there ?

It's down now. Can you imagine the gazillion Hail Marys said on that flight.

cgill

Locker10a wrote:

EIN911 just went around at NOC ! Is there weather there ?

Go around was due to a windshear warning

highlydebased

Turkish expected to get motoring again from Shannon shortly

sjb25

Some pics from the ramp at Shannon earlier

https://www.facebook.com/www.fireireland.com2015/posts/1049728221756032

flanzer

Jesus, these airline bomb warnings (written, phone, e-mail etc) are doing my t!ts in. IS don't do warnings FFS. At least with most of the IRA ones, they had the some courtesy to call it in. The IS/al-Qaeda ones are unfortunately intelligence led

fr336

Gardai have an armed response unit? Did not expect that considering the posts I've read on Boards before!!

JCX BXC

fr336 wrote: »

Gardai have an armed response unit? Did not expect that considering the posts I've read on Boards before!!

If ya ever get a chance to watch RTE News you will hear it. At this stage I can hear the news reader saying "The Garda Armed Response Unit"

EchoIndia

Calina wrote: »

I'd tend to disagree with this. Did you want them to go down to Shannon and into an ATC tower itself or what?

I fully agree about the accuracy of the report, which appears to be from a freelance journalist. What I think this shows, though, is that the media are increasingly offering no real added value over what the lay person can find out from the same primary sources. It's interesting that the two sites I saw (Indo and Irish Times) carried essentially the same report and the bit that was up to the media organisation to address, a photo of a TK aircraft, came up with an A321 and 737 respectively, even though the text specifically said it was a 777-300. Not a major issue for the lay reader but indicative of the lack of much specialist knowledge within media organisations, certainly where aviation is concerned.

fr336

Carnacalla wrote: »

If ya ever get a chance to watch RTE News you will hear it. At this stage I can hear the news reader saying "The Garda Armed Response Unit"

Did you listen back to any of the ATC? The 08:30 stream of Shannon higher doesn't work.

sjb25

fr336 wrote: »

Gardai have an armed response unit? Did not expect that considering the posts I've read on Boards before!!

Here's one of them showing of the gear they have

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBLaST44oY

_dof_

I see from the track of the Turkish plane that on the approach to Shannon it overflew Ennis at around 5000 feet. Surely a plane with a possible bomb on board should avoid overflying populated areas as much as possible?

Gaoth Laidir

_dof_ wrote: »

I see from the track of the Turkish plane that on the approach to Shannon it overflew Ennis at around 5000 feet. Surely a plane with a possible bomb on board should avoid overflying populated areas as much as possible?

Yes, they should have ditched in the sea just to be sure.

_dof_

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Yes, they should have ditched in the sea just to be sure.

Well clearly I meant for the plane to track a couple of miles north or south of the town in the admittedly unlikely event that there was a bomb on board, but thanks for the feedback.

JCX BXC

The route over Ennis seems to be standard for transatlantic traffic coming in from whatever waypoint is there out in the Atlantic. Suppose in a potential emergency situation there's a lot to be worrying about and following the standard routing is probably the most convenient. I understand and agree with your point though. If there's reasonable room to avoid populated areas, why not avoid them? When you compare it to the approach to say LHR its nothing but surely any risk that can be avoided should be avoided.

Shannon Control

From the crew's point of view, if you potentially have a timed bomb on board, the last thing you want to do is add track miles. Nonetheless, I see your point.

pepe the prawn

Stobart enroute to Kerry using one of their new ATR's, EI-FMJ. Normally see one of the older and smaller ATR's doing this route, either EI-CBK or EI-EHH. Nice bonus for the pax to be on a brand new machine