Flightradar24 Thread Part III

nsa0bupkd3948x

ozzy jr wrote: »

UA127 to Washington is currently circling out over the Atlantic, beyond the Donegal coast. Could be returning to Dublin?

I think it was just waiting for clearance. Seems to be on its way now.

r93kaey5p2izun

Any idea what flew over Lucan around 5 mins ago (around 17.25)? I think it must have gone over a couple of hours ago too. The whole house shook and windows rattled! I live very near Baldonnel and lived beside Weston previously too so used to constant plane noise but this was something else! Interested to know if it was something unusual or just something lower than normal even. Everyone was outside checking what was going on. Thanks.

tricky D

Probably BAC 167 STRIKEMASTER MK82A

Trebor176

tricky D wrote: »

Probably BAC 167 STRIKEMASTER MK82A

Why would there have been a Strikemaster in this neck of the woods? Surely they'd have departed long ago following last week's airshow?

My Dad did hear a loud jet earlier this afternoon in Clondalkin, but was unsure of what it could have been. Maybe the same aircraft?

finnharpsboy

Trebor176 wrote: »

Why would there have been a Strikemaster in this neck of the woods? Surely they'd have departed long ago following last week's airshow?

My Dad did hear a loud jet earlier this afternoon in Clondalkin, but was unsure of what it could have been. Maybe the same aircraft?

Birr airshow on today

Trebor176

Trebor176 wrote: »

Why would there have been a Strikemaster in this neck of the woods? Surely they'd have departed long ago following last week's airshow?

My Dad did hear a loud jet earlier this afternoon in Clondalkin, but was unsure of what it could have been. Maybe the same aircraft?

Birr

Trebor176

Thanks folks

r93kaey5p2izun

tricky D wrote: »

Probably BAC 167 STRIKEMASTER MK82A

Thanks. That must have been it. Never experienced anything like it even though the Strikemasters have flown over before. Or even the days of practice the air corps do overhead before special events.

john boye

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Birr

How are you cold in this weather?

JCX BXC

john boye wrote: »

How are you cold in this weather?

Not great here anyway!

marno21

EI-EMN still on the ground at Kerry since arriving in from Luton earlier. M-ABJA has since been in from STN and went back out to DUB, but is inbound to Kerry again now.

The out of hours charges will give the staff quite a nice Christmas party this year

Oops!

Spotted M-ABAJ's movements last night alright.

PukkaStukka

EI139 just left Dublin for Boston almost 7 hours late. Anyone know why?

Oscar Bravo

Virgin A330 G-VLUV diverted into Shannon this morning. 787 G-VOOH is now inbound from LHR to pick up the pax.

Peckham

Aer Lingus 757 flew relatively low over Bray a few hours ago. According to FR24 it was flying Shannon to Boston, but it took direct route from Shannon to Dublin.

What was most likely? Heading to Dublin for maintenance?

JCX BXC

Peckham wrote: »

Aer Lingus 757 flew relatively low over Bray a few hours ago. According to FR24 it was flying Shannon to Boston, but it took direct route from Shannon to Dublin.

What was most likely? Heading to Dublin for maintenance?

They often swap (or rotate) the 757's between Shannon and Dublin. Today, there is no flight to JFK from Shannon so the aircraft flew to Dublin instead. Could be minor maintenance, could be flying from Dublin today.

LXFlyer

Peckham wrote: »

Aer Lingus 757 flew relatively low over Bray a few hours ago. According to FR24 it was flying Shannon to Boston, but it took direct route from Shannon to Dublin.

What was most likely? Heading to Dublin for maintenance?

EI-CJX is currently flying EI101 Dublin to Newark replacing one of the A330 fleet.

john boye

EI145 has turned around over Greenland and seems to be returning to DUB

Mebuntu

EI145 - The Aer Lingus website flight info page indicates Diverted to DUB, ETA 21.30 "next day".

roadmaster

That’s a long way out to turn back. Why would they not divert to airport in Canada or the eastern US would they not be closer?

Mech1

is Flight radar wrong or has EI145 just turned back to heading West?

Mech1

Mech1 wrote: »

is Flight radar wrong or has EI145 just turned back to heading West?

It’s wrong. It’s now out of coverage so it’s on an estimated track which will have picked up probably it’s LAX plan and is showing it westbound. It’s still returning.

Under His Eye

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EIN145

Seems to be heading west as normal.

nsa0bupkd3948x

Under His Eye wrote: »

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EIN145

Seems to be heading west as normal.

It's just estimated. Aer Lingus have confirmed it diverting to Dublin.

Mebuntu

ETA DUB on website now showing 21.50 with "next day" removed.

Arciphel

Aer Lingus plane bound for LA forced to do U-turn over three hours into journey

https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/aer-lingus-plane-bound-for-la-forced-to-do-uturn-over-three-hours-into-journey-37216728.html

ED E

Really are in the silly season at the minute. Headline was the entire story.

john boye

ED E wrote: »

Really are in the silly season at the minute. Headline was the entire story.

Welcome to modern online journalism. They know no more than we do about it but they've managed to eek a story out of it.

Mebuntu

The Omni 772's last showing on Fr24 is the flight back to Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport, TX yesterday following its stand-in for Aer Lingus yesterday. It operated EI123 DUB-Chicago but for some reason the return EI122 was cancelled.

Might be worth keeping an eye out later on Fr24 to see if it's on its way to LAX for the return LAX-DUB. Reg is N828AX

Arciphel

I presume if it was an urgent emergency they would have landed at the closest suitable airport so flying three hours back to Dublin is hopefully just to minimise passenger inconvenience?