I was at work (down road from LBA) when i saw a Thomson 757 pass over very low directly over LBA at also seemed to be going slow! Just wondering if any one else saw it and could help me understand what was happening?

I wonder if it was under radar direction for a landing approach? – I was up at LBA this lunchtime, and the TOM 757 flew directly over the field, at 4,000 ft, then was given a radar heading of 330 degrees, which put him downwind for runway 14.

This type of procedural approach happens regularly at Doncaster, especially when the radar feed from Waddington is unreliable, or if the approach frequency is not being used.

It seems that the 763 IBZ is operating a combined Thomson flight and Thos Cook flight, and that this is for the whole summer. We are currently getting most of the ‘new’ reg Tom 733’s (THOJ, THOK, THOL) at various times, and plenty of ‘tech’ replacements too – hard to keep track, or predict what the based a/c will finally settle down to.