Another Egyptian plane down

**darmstadt** · 19 May 2016, 05:57

A bit worrying as my Dad was flying into Cairo yesterday for work but seems to have arrived okay...

**mudskipper** · 19 May 2016, 06:10

Can't blame Egyptian airport security for this one.

**centurian** · 19 May 2016, 06:23

Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Can't blame Egyptian airport security for this one.

Unless any device was put in place on the outbound flight.

With Lockerbie, the bomb was planted on the preceding flight

Three children on board

**WTFH** · 19 May 2016, 06:24

Might have been shot down.

**MyUserName** · 19 May 2016, 06:56

Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

A bit worrying as my Dad was flying into Cairo yesterday for work but seems to have arrived okay...

Wow - that is pretty scary. Glad he is okay.

**Hobosapien** · 19 May 2016, 07:15

Originally posted by centurian View Post

Unless any device was put in place on the outbound flight.

With Lockerbie, the bomb was planted on the preceding flight

So we have to worry about where a plane has been prior to getting on it, instead of just avoiding dodgy airports.

Do the planes usually stick to the same route (back and forth) or do we need someone to build a plane tracker (presumably one could be built from that online flight tracker data) to give us a recent history of where one's been?

**WTFH** · 19 May 2016, 07:19

Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post

Do the planes usually stick to the same route (back and forth) or do we need someone to build a plane tracker (presumably one could be built from that online flight tracker data) to give us a recent history of where one's been?

Depends on the airline, generally no they do not fly the same plane on the same route every day.

**diseasex** · 19 May 2016, 07:20

Some reports say that it blew in the sky. Might be a bomb this time

**Pondlife** · 19 May 2016, 07:26

Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post

So we have to worry about where a plane has been prior to getting on it, instead of just avoiding dodgy airports.

Do the planes usually stick to the same route (back and forth) or do we need someone to build a plane tracker (presumably one could be built from that online flight tracker data) to give us a recent history of where one's been?

From the article;

Flightradar24 listed details of the plane's journey on Wednesday which showed it had flown from Asmara, in Eritrea, to Cairo, then on to Tunis, in Tunisia, before heading, via Cairo, to Paris.

Another Egyptian plane down