god knows what’s happened. the flight took off, flew directly above UKRAINE to MOSCOW, then bounced back to tunisia and then intercepted to land at Standtead.
All I get from this is that Stansted is disposable.
Police in attendance, diverted from near-london to far-london, plane parked well away from the regular concourse.
Probably terrorism or violence related in-flight crime.
Hope everyone is alright.
Stansted is londons dedicated Airport for terror related diversions, also where air force 1 lands when the president visits.
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god knows what’s happened. the flight took off, flew directly above UKRAINE to MOSCOW, then bounced back to tunisia and then intercepted to land at Standtead.
All I get from this is that Stansted is disposable.
Police in attendance, diverted from near-london to far-london, plane parked well away from the regular concourse.
Probably terrorism or violence related in-flight crime.
Hope everyone is alright.
Stansted is londons dedicated Airport for terror related diversions, also where air force 1 lands when the president visits.
Bomb disposal en route https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23851944.bomb-disposal-vehicles-seen-en-route-stansted-flight-diverted/
You can see where the two RAF Eurofighters began their escort on these two tracker replays
[https://planefinder.net/data/flight/Q0000002/history/4-33296019](https://planefinder.net/data/flight/Q0000002/history/4-33296019)
[https://planefinder.net/data/flight/Q0000003/history/4-33291346](https://planefinder.net/data/flight/Q0000003/history/4-33291346)
Note their transponders were turned off immediately after intercept.