Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:24 - Jun 27 with 5227 views | GeoffSentence | Shoot them down before they fly into a building. | ![](/images/avatars/14261.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 with 5214 views | captainfantastic |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:24 - Jun 27 by GeoffSentence | Shoot them down before they fly into a building. |
Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady | ![](/images/avatars/13228.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:29 - Jun 27 with 5194 views | GeoffSentence |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 by captainfantastic | Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady |
Yep, but plance threats have been taken very seriously since a certain incident 18 years ago. 18 years! Blimey! What happened to all that time. | ![](/images/avatars/14261.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:29 - Jun 27 with 5188 views | wkj |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 by captainfantastic | Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady |
If that lady is anything like my mother in law when she drinks the fighters are far from ott | ![](/images/avatars/11526.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:37 - Jun 27 with 5139 views | BrixtonBlue |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 by captainfantastic | Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady |
What intoxicated lady? Says nothing in the story about an intoxicated lady. | ![](/images/avatars/20632.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:39 - Jun 27 with 5128 views | captainfantastic |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:37 - Jun 27 by BrixtonBlue | What intoxicated lady? Says nothing in the story about an intoxicated lady. |
Separate incident a few days ago | ![](/images/avatars/13228.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:41 - Jun 27 with 5122 views | footers |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:29 - Jun 27 by GeoffSentence | Yep, but plance threats have been taken very seriously since a certain incident 18 years ago. 18 years! Blimey! What happened to all that time. |
We spent it destabilising the Middle East. | ![](/images/avatars/10741.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:55 - Jun 27 with 5067 views | IpswichKnight |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 by captainfantastic | Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady |
That happened as the pilots mentioned that the cockpit was secure and not breached which Air Traffic control took as an attempt by someone to gain access and called the RAF to escort the plane back. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) | Login to get fewer ads
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 16:06 - Jun 27 with 5039 views | braveblue | Boys will play with toys if allowed. How much has this cost I wonder? | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 16:33 - Jun 27 with 4975 views | ElderGrizzly |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 15:27 - Jun 27 by captainfantastic | Still seems a bit OTT to scramble jets because of an intoxicated lady |
They were scrambled because of a bomb threat today, even though it turned out to be a hoax. Sometimes if a pilot doesn’t respond, they will also be scrambled. Happens more often than you think it would around the world. | ![](/images/avatars/17014.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 16:38 - Jun 27 with 4960 views | GeoffSentence |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 16:06 - Jun 27 by braveblue | Boys will play with toys if allowed. How much has this cost I wonder? |
Don't worry, it will be tucked away in the RAF training budget. | ![](/images/avatars/14261.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 17:09 - Jun 27 with 4915 views | SE1blue | I hope that if they do have to take one down due to a cabin breach, that they do the whole inverted thing from Top Gun and look the terrorist in the eye before taking him down. | ![](/images/avatars/8559.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 18:27 - Jun 27 with 4830 views | Sarge | Weird seeing my job plastered over the news. As ElderGrizzly says, happens more than you think and so far there’s been nothing sinister in any of them. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 20:54 - Jun 27 with 4702 views | WD19 |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 18:27 - Jun 27 by Sarge | Weird seeing my job plastered over the news. As ElderGrizzly says, happens more than you think and so far there’s been nothing sinister in any of them. |
Since when has being a drunk lady been a ‘job’!? | ![](/images/avatars/7294.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:00 - Jun 27 with 4685 views | BLUEBEAT | Twice in a week. Must be some intel about something in the works. :( | ![](/images/avatars/340.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:06 - Jun 27 with 4670 views | Sarge |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 20:54 - Jun 27 by WD19 | Since when has being a drunk lady been a ‘job’!? |
Someone has to test their responses | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:08 - Jun 27 with 4666 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:00 - Jun 27 by BLUEBEAT | Twice in a week. Must be some intel about something in the works. :( |
That or it happens quite often as someone in the know has suggested on here but once one ahs hit the news, the second becomes much more newsworthy than previously. | ![](/images/avatars/2131.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:09 - Jun 27 with 4662 views | Rob88 | I thought it was a tremor at first. Thought the chuffing glass partitions in the office were going to shatter. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:54 - Jun 27 with 4598 views | BrixtonBlue |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:00 - Jun 27 by BLUEBEAT | Twice in a week. Must be some intel about something in the works. :( |
Don't say that, I'm flying to New York tomorrow! | ![](/images/avatars/20632.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 22:03 - Jun 27 with 4576 views | ElderGrizzly |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 21:54 - Jun 27 by BrixtonBlue | Don't say that, I'm flying to New York tomorrow! |
They were unrelated, so no intel about anything resulting in these incidents. Just don’t have too many shandies and then shout bomb. You’ll be fine. | ![](/images/avatars/17014.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 22:55 - Jun 27 with 4517 views | Ryorry |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 16:33 - Jun 27 by ElderGrizzly | They were scrambled because of a bomb threat today, even though it turned out to be a hoax. Sometimes if a pilot doesn’t respond, they will also be scrambled. Happens more often than you think it would around the world. |
How are the pilots in their fighter jets going to control a drunk in another plane tho? | ![](/images/avatars/1567.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:03 - Jun 27 with 4511 views | SpruceMoose |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 22:03 - Jun 27 by ElderGrizzly | They were unrelated, so no intel about anything resulting in these incidents. Just don’t have too many shandies and then shout bomb. You’ll be fine. |
Don't joke with US border personnel either. In my experience they are entirely humourless and carry out the job of admitting tourists with far too much hostility. I always know I'm home when I hear an American voice screaming at a group of startled Norwegians for approaching the desk in a group rather than individually. Not to worry you. | ![](/images/avatars/439.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:09 - Jun 27 with 4499 views | ElderGrizzly |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 22:55 - Jun 27 by Ryorry | How are the pilots in their fighter jets going to control a drunk in another plane tho? |
Sadly, they are scrambled in case the drunk passenger potentially breaches the cockpit. They then have a potentially unenviable task... | ![](/images/avatars/17014.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:13 - Jun 27 with 4493 views | SpruceMoose |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:09 - Jun 27 by ElderGrizzly | Sadly, they are scrambled in case the drunk passenger potentially breaches the cockpit. They then have a potentially unenviable task... |
Is that even possible post 9/11? | ![](/images/avatars/439.gif) |
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Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:53 - Jun 27 with 4468 views | Ryorry |
Fighters escorting passenger planes on 23:09 - Jun 27 by ElderGrizzly | Sadly, they are scrambled in case the drunk passenger potentially breaches the cockpit. They then have a potentially unenviable task... |
Cripes ... | ![](/images/avatars/1567.gif) |
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