Mysterious plane flying low over Whitby UK

Gibson · Minor Poster Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 62

Something in the air?

http://www.whitbytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=983&ArticleID =1948694

kc · Moderate Poster Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 359

I can detour past Teesside Airport on the way home and have a butchers in a couple of hours.

mobypaterson · Minor Poster Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 60

yeah do that... see what you can see Confused

Bit odd that eh?

telecasterisation · Banned Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 1873 Location: Upstairs

Would someone care to elaborate on what exactly made this aircraft appear suspicious? It was after all, flying over a town in broad daylight.

It only bcame a mystery after investigations were made.

Gibson · Minor Poster Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 62

uselesseater · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

Torture victims being rendered?

Anyone know of a decent plane spotters site? I think they would have it pinned down and probably know where it landed.

telecasterisation · Banned Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 1873 Location: Upstairs

ishaar · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

Busker · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

It could be a "hired in" freight plane (not unusual given the extra parcel traffic this time of year) heading for Teesside though the configuration of the plane in flight of nose-up over Whitby would be too far out for the Teeside circuit or holding pattern.

Note Fylingdales confirmed it was not a military "plane". If the report is accurate, they did not deny it was a military "flight"

ishaar · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

Gibson · Minor Poster Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 62

Busker · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject:

I've checked an aviation map for the area (that will be out of date by a couple of years).

Whitby is well outside of the restricted airspace around Fylingdales which extends as far as Grossmont.

The controlled (not restricted) airspace around Teesside Airport has visual report points at Redcar racecourse and Stokesley that would be used to radio in by light aircraft flying under "Visual Flight Rules". This one is a heavy so would be instrument flying.

I think the approach into Teesside from the South when landing East to West is along the coastline with a final desent over Teesmouth and along Tees Valley.

So to me it still sounds too far out, too low, to be in a holding pattern for Teesside.

Confused.....

Gibson · Minor Poster Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 62

Busker · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject:

Dogsmilk · Mighty Poster Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 1616

telecasterisation · Banned Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 1873 Location: Upstairs

There is absolutely no reason to view an unmarked aircraft with suspicion.
Simply go to any site dealing with chartering planes - they are unmarked.

Hazzard · Moderate Poster Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 368

It looks just like a refueling plane *shrug*

I'd say a DC-10.

wepmob2000 · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject:

Yep it is a DC-10, which are by and large used as cargo planes nowadays. The USAF uses a very similar aircraft as a tanker but from what I can see on the small picture theres no sign of the refuelling gear, so its most likely a civil operated DC-10. It looks as though its landing light is on (in the RHS wing-root), so its probably on approach to Teesside. The DC-10 is pretty old these days and it doesn't have the latest nav equipment, so most likely the pilots got a bit confused as to their whereabouts, which happens more often than is generally thought. (A few weeks ago I overheard some pilots who were completely lost whilst taxiing at Heathrow, and ground control had to repeatedly tell them the way to the runway?!)

wepmob2000 · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject:

P.S. A phone call to Teesside Airport Air Traffic Control would probably resolve the mystery.

telecasterisation · Banned Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 1873 Location: Upstairs

wepmob2000 · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

wepmob2000 · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:56 am Post subject:

P.S. Tele, your crack about Prole Art and the Samsonite case made me spill my tea, keep em coming Laughing

rodin · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:30 am Post subject:

And now for something completely different...

http://www.illuminati-news.com/092506a.htm

Wink

Hazzard · Moderate Poster Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 368

If these "journalists" are this bored and this starved for a decent story that they drive around all day watching for cargo planes, why dont they just go over to any 911.com site and find something real to report on instead of chasing red herrings.

kc · Moderate Poster Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 359

well, couldnt see it at the airport and not seen it since, my house has the fortune of being right under the teesside approach path, I'd call tesside atc but there's a slight problem in that I'm not really that bothered :)

TBH I see flights like that quite regularly, even seen me a black helicopter once, no messing, all black twin prop blackhawkalike flying so low it nearly took the bus roof off. MInd you, that was years ago, late 90's not seen one since.

Whats the weather like over pool way today webmop? Takin the dog for a run at Seaton, need to know whether I wear two coats or three ;)

telecasterisation · Banned Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 1873 Location: Upstairs

kc;

kc · Moderate Poster Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 359

is it me or is the aatmosphere round these ways a HELL of a lot more amiable than it was?? :)

adam1 · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: yes

yes, it is, I think telly has mellowed over the holidays and has moved down a notch from caustic sarcasm to mild irony. Plus we're missing a few of the usual suspects...touch wood Wink

wepmob2000 · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject:

Hey Kc

Lovely day here for a walk along the front at Seaton, not too cold or windy (makes a pleasant change!). Not like last night when I awoke to find a bearded bloke with his face pressed up against my upstairs bedroom window. Yes, next doors large inflatable Santa now runs free....

blackcat · Validated Poster Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 2376

Well just twenty miles north its blowing a gale and freezing.

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