An Olympic A340 routing Athens – New York diverted to Stansted after reports of a bomb scare.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/…1153076,00.html
I believe our very own Wannabee Pilot was at the airport to witness the scene, no doubt a full eye witness account will be delivered later :p
By: LBARULES - 26th September 2004 at 20:16
Saw an Olympic a/c on the news earlier, wondered what it was all about, now I know!
Nice shots Dan 🙂
By: mmitch - 26th September 2004 at 20:11
The story is in the press. The’Daily Mail online’ has the story at:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=319306&in_page_id=1770
mmitch.
By: Airline owner - 26th September 2004 at 19:26
Good piccies, Wannabe
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th September 2004 at 18:50
Hi guys – what I am getting on the newswire at the moment is that the airline got a phone call threat – no real details released – sometime early afternoon GMT. All passengers and crew evacuated safely for 301 headcount at Standstead and the authorities are reported to be clearing the plane now. Good result as far as security alerts go thankfully.
By: wannabe pilot - 26th September 2004 at 18:48
Then just a couple more. My camera wasn’t operating to it’s usual quality in the bad weather conditions and dark skies, but here are just a couple you might be interested in seeing. I also have a pic of a rare 727 with winglets, but I can’t get it under the 100kb limit without the quality decreasing to a point hwere you will hardly be able to look at it!
By: wannabe pilot - 26th September 2004 at 18:39
Just gotta couple of other photos from today here. My main intention was to catch the Polet An-124, but it departed just as I left my house 🙁 Here it is from the bottom of my street anyway….
By: wannabe pilot - 26th September 2004 at 17:50
I’ve just been thinking this one through carefully, and have decided that I may be treading on delicate issues if I start giving you a full account with all my pictures of what happened. If the same information is released by the press then I know Im safe, but until then I had better just leave it to that single picture and what the media have told you.
By: wannabe pilot - 26th September 2004 at 17:15
You bet I was there to see it 😉 I’ll come back asap with a full report of what I saw etc, very busy at the moment making sure my pics are the first to make it on the net. In the meantime here is the very first picture http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=363216
By: Airline owner - 26th September 2004 at 16:59
good that it was only a scare.
By: RIPConcorde - 26th September 2004 at 16:56
And http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3691856.stm
Sounds like a bit of excitement for Dan, if he did see it! 😉
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