hifly 925 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Just after 11.00 am today I heard an airliner flying low overhead. Now we do get them over Hastings airspace but always above 10,000ft and en route to the London terminals. So I got onto Flightradar24.com and there was a Thomas Cook 757 Reg G-JAMB circling Hastings at 5,800 ft doing 210 kts, it went round at least twice. It had flown from Gatwick en route to Hupghada in Egypt, it got as far as Liege in Belgium and turned back taking a long route over the English Channel to the Thames Estuary probably to dump fuel. It then headed towards Gatwick and then Hastings. I'm assuming that they had to dump more fuel and thought that Hastings was better than the more affluent areas of East Sussex. It then headed off towards Gatwick where hopefully it made a safe landing. Unfortunately I couldn't get a visual on it as the sun was too low and too bright on this glorious sunny day. Whatever the problem was, I hope it was nothing serious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted October 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 UPDATE: According to BBC South East an escape chute fell off/out of the plane over the E Sussex/Kent border soon after take off and has yet to be found. The plane landed safely at Gatwick and no one was hurt. Who says nothing exciting ever happens in Hastingzzz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruzzo 59 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 On Twitter people are saying it was a panel that fell of the a/c.. claerly the Beeb has the answer. Thanks Geoff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markhudson6 13 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Noticed this today. http://avherald.com/h?article=47c98ac8&opt=0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Seems was something came off it at least, but it's not confirmed exactly what. I'd keep watching this space for more details. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=47c98ac8&opt=0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,253 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 The escape cute would make a cool slip-n-slide. Anyone know how often fuel dumps are made? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 I would guess suprisingly often Brett - there's generally a trans-atlantic divert into Shannon at least once a week due to medical / mechanical emergencies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,253 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Thanks Chuck, tried to do a bit of reading on it but got a lot of conflicting views on it's impact on the environment. Oh well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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