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Jenni
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 Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 01:30 Post subject: Strange. A near miss or not. |
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Officials have denied any breach of safety after two planes were pictured apparently flying perilously close together over east London.
The aircraft - a DHL plane and a Japan Airlines jet - were reportedly seen flying over West Ham FC's Upton Park ground just after 1500 GMT on Saturday.
The Civil Aviation Authority said no near miss had been reported and it was impossible to tell how close they were.
DHL said both planes had landed at Heathrow with no safety lapses.
The photographer who captured the image told the Sunday Mirror he started taking photos after seeing the planes apparently coming together "on a collision course".
But a spokesman for DHL said photographs could be "incredibly deceptive".
"In the picture, they look like they are close together but it doesn't mean they are. And in fact they were not," he said.
"If there had been any incident of them being close together, there are all sorts of systems which would have gone off, both in the plane itself and at air traffic control - but there wasn't any report of an incident."
The spokesman said there was no question that either aircraft had strayed from its proper path, which should mean there was a distance of some two and a half miles between them.
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spankie
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deelix
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 09:09 Post subject: |
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@the planes. yeah they could be over 100 meters from eachoter. Prolly more
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pancake
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 10:26 Post subject: |
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if they were a sclose as they appear the dhl plane would of been bouncing around in the japanese planes disturbed air
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Jenni
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 11:32 Post subject: |
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Yeah? Just explain how you see a plane bouncing about in a still photo. 
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 13:30 Post subject: |
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of course you need to know the sizes of these 2 planes to make a statement about the distance. if they were really 2 miles apart then the dhl plane would prolly be only 1/4 the site of the japan airlines one.
i d say less than half a mine would seem realistic.
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 17:03 Post subject: |
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that cannot be true, if it was really that close the other plane would have shaken like a motherfucker since of the turbulence form the first plane
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jan 2006 17:45 Post subject: |
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Jenni
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