mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Still circling
Over an hour later he's still holding over Cavan.
Burning off fuel and running checklists, I presume?
Ei105 returning to Dublin airport. Currently holding over North midlands
We’ll get back out there’s another one
Managed to get a glimpse of her through the clouds.Had to run out back when I heard that sound.
The noise is amazing
Nice spot! And the plane was!😀
I do find it somewhat amusing that the poster who posted that is called "Be right back" !
He should have done a few Z's in the sky over Wexford while the FO completed the online training module. That would have had you all guessing for at least 2 days. 😉
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I was on the flight. Comms trouble. One of the backup radios failed. Unable to repair it and no spare aircraft available. Passengers deplaned into terminal building. Had to wait until an EI flight arrived from Manchester and pax swapped on to that aircraft. Original ETA in Malaga was 15.50. Finally arrived at 20.25. Aer Lingus offered complimentary tea/coffee on the replacement flight.
Unfortunately the people on EI584 will not be going to Malaga this time. They are about to land back in Dublin after some sightseeing along the south coast.
Anyone any idea what the problem was?
Blinken on the way to Kyiv
Was going to post the same! Nice cloudless day for it too
DEA Aviation doing some surveying over Galway and Mayo this morning
Check out this flight
I think I saw the same one as well, around 8.30 am. Anyone know more as I never noticed a U turn contrail before?
A listen-back to the relevant LiveATC archive might shed light on the dogleg over Ireland.
The A340 are only stopping in Shannon from JFK for crew training, sometimes they'll land and taxi around the apron and take off again straight away.
The Bournemouth to JFK stops in Shannon are for fuel as they can't take off full from Bournemouth.
A long time ago, back when turbo prop aircraft (HS748's) were doing the cargo runs, there was a regular flight in with a load of boxes on that was unloaded, the boxes went off the ramp to a warehouse, and the same boxes came back not long after, and it was reloaded and went out again. A while later, there was a complex court case that related a significant cross border VAT fraud that involved a lot of boxes of computer chips.
These flights may be completely above board and genuine, and the stops here may be nothing more than a technical refuelling stop because they can't get out of Bournemouth with a full load and trans atlantic fuel, (as was the case with the London City to New York BA flights that stopped in Shannon when going westbound) but given that there are some very complex VAT issues around the North and Bexit as a result of the UK leaving the EU, with the North still tied into some very complex EU arrangements because of the North South Good Friday agreements, I find myself wondering if there's some sort of manipulation going on that's legal but benefitting someone to the detriment of "the system".
I saw those contrails myself yesterday morning and after checking FR24 was curious about what was going on.
From looking at Twitter that airline are doing cargo runs between the US and Europe including some shuttles between Shannon, Belfast and Bournemouth. One tweet described how an aircraft would land at Belfast, reach its stand, and then depart again without any loading or unloading.
Then there is this over Shannon yesterday. Hard to understand what’s going on, or where the revenue is coming from.
why did it do the turn over shannon ?
It was not landing at SNN and went direct to Bournemouth.
This guy is drawing a nice pattern in the sky over Shannon now
Inbound to Brize Norton.
Gotten kind of used to hearing a US Navy C-130 flying over. Thought I heard it again, but turns out it's New Zealand this time.
https://www.flightradar24.com/RSD088/2b827e07 big detour for this il96
Leeds Bradford crazy this morning. FR152 / EAI39LB
Ever decreasing circles. 2 aircorps jets hard at it!
