Caporegime
Think you want to go back to watching CBBC newsround.
Russian airliner missing over Egypt
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Think you want to go back to watching CBBC newsround.
Soldato
monarch are putting on 3 extra flights today - possibly prompted (and paid for) by the uk government
Caporegime
They are keeping us quite well informed and doesn't look like they will be flying from there for the next few days. They are being looked after but doesn't stop the worry.
Good luck. I'm sure she'll be fine but I can understand the worry.
Attempt at humour. Failed.
Caporegime
Man of Honour
Also two scheduled flights from Sharm el-Sheikh tomorrow.
Soldato
My parents and Grandma are in Sharm as well but not due back till next week. They had heard nothing from reps or anything at all about it. Pretty shoddy to be honest but they wont let it ruin the holiday.
Soldato
I have a lad on my Facebook that's stuck in the airport and asking people to feed news as it comes in because he's not being told anything.
I would be going nuts not knowing.
Caporegime
Easy Jet are grounded till tomorrow but the news my Daughter is getting is possibly not going out till Monday. I hope that is wrong though and they can fly tomorrow but above all else, fly safely home.
Heard on the radio tonight coming home airlines are sending empty planes tomorrow to bring people home but no hold luggage allowed. The government will ship the hold luggage separately and delivered by courier a week later.
Guess they worried about bombs in the hold.
They also reported almost riots at hotels as angry passengers not happy at having to pay for extra nights in the hotels. Not exactly the hotels fault and I don't blame them for charging tbh
Guess they worried about bombs in the hold.
They also reported almost riots at hotels as angry passengers not happy at having to pay for extra nights in the hotels. Not exactly the hotels fault and I don't blame them for charging tbh
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There's been a lot of talk about it being a bomb but I wonder if ISIS have got a plane of their own that they can use to fire missiles from. With their resources they could crudely fashion together a pressurised light aircraft with shoulder rockets.
Soldato
Wouldn't some sort of insurance kick in?
Associate
A light aircraft that can cruise at FL300 and travel at M.80?
Even if there was such a thing, using unguided rockets would be hit and miss. Mostly miss though.
Soldato
They could ride a flying pig to 15,000ft?
Soldato
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That is 1 of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
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be easier toactualy capture or buy a freaking jet than that.
A light aircraft that can cruise at FL300 and travel at M.80?
Even if there was such a thing, using unguided rockets would be hit and miss. Mostly miss though.
There are planes like the Cessna 210 that can get up to 20kft+ altitude. Obviously not at commercial airliner speeds.
Then you have the infrared homing FIM-92 Stinger which "can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles and helicopters". They have a range of 25,000 feet. 70,000 of them have been produced, I'm sure something like that is obtainable by ISIS through their Iraq acquisitions.
I know it sounds far out and there might be physical reasons why it's not possible, but ISIS have talked about having their own 'air force' before. They don't need a trillion dollar budget to cause chaos in the air.
Soldato
A light aircraft that can cruise at FL300 and travel at M.80?
Even if there was such a thing, using unguided rockets would be hit and miss. Mostly miss though.
ISIS have 2 or 3 MiG-21`s
evidence suggests though it was an internal event
Soldato
Why go through all the trouble when you can simply pay Ibrahim, who works as a baggage handler at Sharm el-Sheikh and is also an IS sympathiser, to place a small device amongst the luggage?