Egypt plane crash

[Troll]

Why not a baggage handler at the airport loading a package with a barometric pressure trigger

Failing that - Colonel Mustard, in the desert, with a BUK

Pointless discussing further since I have already provided the answer in post #5 a la Lockerbie

I am prepared to be corrected on it being a timer rather than barometric trigger being used - but these are susceptible to flight delays

[DodgyAgent]

There doesn't seem to be a survey from the Apartheid years, point is, the shockingly high levels of sexual violence seem to be a characteristic of the country post and pre-apartheid, so I am not sure what their relevance is to an anti-Mandela/ANC rant.

A bit more than climate change has to do with burning fossil fuels

[vetran]

There doesn't seem to be a survey from the Apartheid years, point is, the shockingly high levels of sexual violence seem to be a characteristic of the country post and pre-apartheid, so I am not sure what their relevance is to an anti-Mandela/ANC rant.

I would suggest that law and order is a key job of the government if they can't handle that they aren't really performing.

[darmstadt]

A bit more than climate change has to do with burning fossil fuels

No. No. We've gone enough off topic already....

[Troll]

They kept that a bit quiet

Rocket 'attack' on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh

[SpontaneousOrder]

They kept that a bit quiet

Rocket 'attack' on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh

Blimey.


How many stranded tourists are there? They send warships and god knows what to transport foreign refugees - why not brits? Where's my 7% extra divi tax going?!!!

[AtW]

Rocket 'attack' on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh

1000 ft away rocket would have had nice lock onto engines and passenger aircraft would have no chance to do anything other than take it into the engine - for a skilled pilot it would not be certain death actually.

[minestrone]

They kept that a bit quiet

Rocket 'attack' on UK tour jet: Pilot with 189 passengers dodged missile above Sharm El Sheikh

I am sure there were another few attempts at this 4 or 5 years ago from northern African airports.

EDIT: Kenya in 2002.

[chopper]

1000ft, otherwise known as a little bit less than 0.2 miles.

Even at 150 miles per hour (lets assume it was low altitude on final approach), that means covering 2.5 miles a minute, therefore 24 seconds to cover one mile, therefore about 5 seconds to cover 1000ft.

The pilot wouldn't even have time to ask "What's that?", never mind take evasive action that the passengers and cabin crew didn't notice.

As for departing with the lights off, isn't that a bit like Wile E Coyote closing the curtains of his shed which happens to be parked on a train line with a train heading straight for it?

[Troll]

1000 ft away rocket would have had nice lock onto engines and passenger aircraft would have no chance to do anything other than take it into the engine - for a skilled pilot it would not be certain death actually.

Must have been a firework then