Fighter jets escort plane after bomb threat

[BrilloPad]

Passengers learn of bomb scare on Twitter - Telegraph

[vetran]

Slough (also handy in a last minute approach to Heathrow)

Yep they probably would find friends

Slough Census Demographics United Kingdom

against

Birmingham Census Demographics United Kingdom

and England

LocalStats and England Demographics

yes more than 40% are foreign born against 16.5% for England.

[NickFitz]

BBC News - Military jets escort Qatar Airways plane to Manchester Airport

Don't really see what the purpose of such an escort is, apart from shooting the aeroplane out of the sky in case it gets hijacked and the hijacker wants to fly into a building like 9/11
Which is not a very comforting thought for the passengers as they could actually see the jets (see the film in the article) You know they are there just for one reason, to shoot you out of the sky

Here's an explainer from Wired about the whole "fighters have been scrambled" thing: What's the point of scrambling RAF fighter jets? (Wired UK)

[OwlHoot]

or Birmingham....

Slough (also handy in a last minute approach to Heathrow)

[NickFitz]

I thought you were supposed to turn off mobile devices on landing?

Anything to get ones story in the media I suppose.

AFAIK he did, as he tweeted his photos and video of the fighter alongside them, then went quiet, then started tweeting photos of the emergency vehicles and armed police from the ground.

Though the FAA has now admitted that there's no need anyway - not sure if UK/EU authorities have caught up yet.

[VectraMan]

I thought you were supposed to turn off mobile devices on landing?

Probably doesn't matter much if the plane has a bomb on board, or you're about to be shot down by the RAF.

Though it would be ironic if after the bomb having turned out to be a hoax, and the RAF withdrawn, the plane was brought down anyway by Twitter.

[BrilloPad]

One of the passengers was live-tweeting it, and responding to various news organisations that were bombarding him with questions as they were coming in to land.

I retweeted the one that said "The guy sat next me says hi".

I thought you were supposed to turn off mobile devices on landing?

Anything to get ones story in the media I suppose.

[NickFitz]

One of the passengers was live-tweeting it, and responding to various news organisations that were bombarding him with questions as they were coming in to land.

I retweeted the one that said "The guy sat next me says hi".

[CloudWalker]

Well they'd probably kill more muslims there, than infidels..

[KentPhilip]

or Birmingham....

Well they'd probably kill more muslims there, than infidels..

[SueEllen]

Or Eastern Ukraine.

The rebels would have missed.

[Old Greg]

or Birmingham....

Or Eastern Ukraine.

[northernladuk]

Exactly.

They basically divert them over a field or somewhere with a very low population density.

or Birmingham....

[SueEllen]

Don't really see what the purpose of such an escort is, apart from shooting the aeroplane out of the sky in case it gets hijacked and the hijacker wants to fly into a building like 9/11

Exactly.

They basically divert them over a field or somewhere with a very low population density.

[Eirikur]

BBC News - Military jets escort Qatar Airways plane to Manchester Airport

Don't really see what the purpose of such an escort is, apart from shooting the aeroplane out of the sky in case it gets hijacked and the hijacker wants to fly into a building like 9/11
Which is not a very comforting thought for the passengers as they could actually see the jets (see the film in the article) You know they are there just for one reason, to shoot you out of the sky