mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Anyone know what this is? It just flew over here and was really loud..
Not daylight or weather-dependent and maybe there are good operational reasons for doing this at night.
Thanks for your reply, seems like an odd time of night to be doing it.
It's a survey aircraft it's probably carrying a ground penetrating radar or normal terrain mapping radar perhaps it could be looking for good sights for new wind turbines.
Hi guys, first time posting in here so be gentle.
There is a small plane WKT14 might be a king air flying a pattern over county sligo at the moment, does anyone know what it is doing? It took off from Birmingham. It looks like similar behaviour to the military planes in eastern europe. Is sligo about to be invaded lol.
Edited to add. There are 2 siimilar planes REV6ND REV6AF doing the same thing over cornwall/devon and one over south wales WKT58.
Interesting article showing routes and disruption to air travel
https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/AIRLINES/klpykbmropg/
How many in the fleet does anybody know ? On its way too Morocco
Same plane here, also carrying nuclear fuel?
Yup, Flying babies home.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/military-aircraft-assisting-operation-to-bring-surrogate-babies-born-in-ukraine-to-ireland-1.4816764
Our own PC12 (IRL283) just took off from Rzeszow. Repatriation flight presumably?
Saw that earlier. Range would be less with more cargo on board I guess? If it was carrying heavy cargo then could have needed a refuelling at Shannon?
Speaking of Rzeszow, Ive been tracking this airport and area in general due to its proximity to Ukr. Tracking 2 daily Stratotankers, a Global hawk and other military aircraft in that area over the last couple of days.
If you would like to view any landings at Rzeszow, tehre is a pretty good live cam:
http://kamery-rzeszow.pl/kamera-lotnisko-jasionka-rzeszow/
KC-130 from yesterday flying past
There are four B-52s currently deployed to Fairford and they are flying training missions most weekdays. Looks like the Tain ranges in Scotland were the destination today.
Two B52s over the Irish Sea currently - never seen that before. Callsign FEAR31/32.
That flight could possibly delivering logistical support as the rate of arrivals into Rzeszow airport is far and above what they normally take.
It has a 3.2km runway (longer than Cork/ORK), but the apron and handling areas are a fraction of Cork's.
It left Shannon just after 6 this morning.
The Shannon stops are mainly for crew changes.
Heres a random Boeing 777-2U8(ER) just arrived into Rzeszow on the Ukranian border from Shannon. From random forums, the only operator of this plane type is Omni air who from time to time do runs for the US military .
Now.... if this is an extra range aircraft with 15,000 km range or more, why do they stop at Shannon ? California to Rzeszow is <10,000km. Is it a glorified pish stop, more for the benefit of the humans on board than a necessity because of lack of range of the airplane?
Does anyone know whats happening in ORK? FR is diverting to SNN now.
Agreed on the seat and headrests - but hard disagree old trope about "far from destination".
I'm taking FR to Beauvais in a few weeks because it's far more convenient to where I need to be than either CDG or ORY. It's also a quarter of the price. As ever, just my €19.99 plus taxes and charges.....
They could possibly be using ground penetrating radar which works anytime of the day maybe they are doing it now because it is a clear night and at least here in Mayo it's relatively calm weather.
What's going on here? They're hardly doing aerial surveys at night..
Air Canada 787 from Delhi inbound Dub. Diversion?
Slovakia have said that was carrying fuel for a nuclear power plant and was granted and exemption
Russian plane from Moscow to Bratislava early in the morning. Due to depart from there tomorrow.
Would love to know the terms under which that flight path was allowed? Watched a commercial aircraft yesterday coming from Moscow heading for Verona getting turned around off the Greek coast and after a couple of different holding patterns landed at Istanbul.
Looks like its a fuel issue
YVR to DEL is an up and over the pole flight so if you can't go through Russia, you got to go south through Turkey and you won't have enough gas to make it home even on a 787
Dublin is probably a lot more flexible than say LHR/CDG/FRA about accommodating this kind of flight, possibly need a crew change as well as its two 8 hour legs
Yes, but they will try and see if one can be slipped in in error.
This would be a propaganda coup if they could achieve it.
2 Air Canadas DEL->DUB currently over Turkey. Is this to avoid Russia?
SU7236 Aeroflot to Verona was on hold over Greece/Turkey due to being refused entry. Looks to be going somewhere else now.
Surely the plane knew before it took off that it would be refused.
AC44 Vancouver to Delhi took a sharp right north of Ireland, diverting into DUB
FR7032 an emergency divert
Seen a Ryanair from Dublin to Faro divert to France on FR24 this morning
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