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Red plane on Flightradar24 over Manchester.

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Cheeseandlobster · 27/06/2022 12:05

Are there any fellow Flightradar geeks on here? There is a red tui plane over Manchester right now squaking. Any idea why?

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Daftapath · 27/06/2022 13:44

AnyFucker · 27/06/2022 13:42

Back to Crowded House who are cool, calm and just as safe as houses 😇

Saw them at Hampton Court Palace on Saturday night. They were amazing!

PattyMelt · 27/06/2022 13:47

We had the circe and land thing when taking off from Heathrow and flying to San Francisco.
The pilot came on the radio to tell us all we had just hit a flock of geese and one engine now needed attention so we dumped fuel over Birmingham (sorry Brum) and went back to Heathrow for a 4 hour wait.

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 13:51

East Midlands to Shannon flight has been circling East Midlands for 25 minutes

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AnyFucker · 27/06/2022 13:51

@Daftapath they make it look so effortless, don’t they

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 13:52

Looks like it’s landing back at EMA half an hour after it took off…

LizzieSiddal · 27/06/2022 13:53

So glad everyone is safe and sound!

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 13:54

Actually the Shannon one has gone back up again. Hope they’re ok..

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 14:01

Got down to 150 ft and gone back up again.. must be terrifying.

SpinningTheSeedsOfLove · 27/06/2022 14:01

Shannon's quite windy sometimes.

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 27/06/2022 14:01

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 13:51

East Midlands to Shannon flight has been circling East Midlands for 25 minutes

I know someone who did pilot training there, those are practice flights, I don't know why they have a destination, there are meant to just be going in circles

stopwindingeachotherup · 27/06/2022 14:04

Ah, that’s good to know, thanks for putting my mind at rest. My daughter flew out of Gatwick this morning so I’m a bit jumpy!

disappointed101 · 27/06/2022 14:12

What’s that BIO12 plane under Ireland? Its flying pattern is so weird

PrincessPark · 27/06/2022 14:20

There's a jet just taken off from Anglesea on the right of it

3luckystars · 27/06/2022 14:24

Source?
My eyes 😂

SamBeckettslastleap · 27/06/2022 14:31

BaconMassive eyes have been confirmed as working by Manchester Control Tower.

That would have been one very sketchy flight when they announced one engine had packed up.

Daftapath · 27/06/2022 14:43

AnyFucker · 27/06/2022 13:51

@Daftapath they make it look so effortless, don’t they

Absolutely! They were all so relaxed and chatty. Clearly having a great time too

johnd2 · 27/06/2022 14:43

Must be scary for those onboard
We had a flight from Mallorca, took off as normal and before the seat belt sign went off but after the cabin crew were up, the pilot announced "code bravo" and all the cabin crew looked worried and packed up and sat back down. We were like...wtf for ages.
Eventually the pilot announced technical issues and we would be going back again.
No further information and thus was unnecessarily worrying! I'm glad to hear other airlines give more info. In the end I heard it was one of the two engines was overheating, so I'm not sure it was better to know at the time or not.
The fire engines met the plane but we still parked as normal.

notimagain · 27/06/2022 14:43

Been away for an hour, blimey that went fast..and a few notes on random comments from someone who has been the other side of this on occasions:

Shannon used lots for training, you'll see lots of ups and downs.

FlightRadar often loses accuracy (position, speed and altitude) at low level because of the way it gets it's data, so aircraft apparently ending up in odd places on landings not unusual.

Re emergencies and these 7700 Squawks again..Most of the time the pilots are actually told/asked by ATC to enter the 7700 into the magic box on the flight deck simply because it makes the aircraft's return on the screens more visible to the controller working the flight and also to other controllers working adjacent airspace, not because anybody thinks a wing/engine is about to fall off.

If you take off and have a relatively minor problems that stops you proceeding as planned (e.g. gear won't come up properly, flaps won't come up properly, pressurisation not working OK) than ATC might want to "park" you somewhere to dump fuel and might want to make sure everybody with radar can see you easily....

In most instances having worked the problem come up with a plan and started dumping fuel the crew's problems are almost over, especially if a normal landing is anticipated and one of their biggest concerns might be what happens to their roster..

I also maybe ought to tactfully point out that given the majority of 7700s are for medical emergencies, which can sometimes be nasty ( I was involved in a handful when I was flying), sometimes v nasty, the pros, both pilots and cabin crew can sometimes get a bit 🤔at what can appear to be an element of ambulance chasing whenever one of the tracker sites pings up a 7700 warning.

CharlotteRose90 · 27/06/2022 14:47

The Cape Verde one is from engine failure and has landed safe and sound, second time it’s happened in days to TUi, the first was a dalaman the other day.

I work at Manchester but not for TUI.

QueenWatevraWaNabi · 27/06/2022 14:49

stopwindingeachotherup

  • quite an apt username for this thread.
CharlotteRose90 · 27/06/2022 14:50

johnd2 · 27/06/2022 14:43

Must be scary for those onboard
We had a flight from Mallorca, took off as normal and before the seat belt sign went off but after the cabin crew were up, the pilot announced "code bravo" and all the cabin crew looked worried and packed up and sat back down. We were like...wtf for ages.
Eventually the pilot announced technical issues and we would be going back again.
No further information and thus was unnecessarily worrying! I'm glad to hear other airlines give more info. In the end I heard it was one of the two engines was overheating, so I'm not sure it was better to know at the time or not.
The fire engines met the plane but we still parked as normal.

Code bravo is the security threat code for both aircraft and airport so you probably heard something else. If it had been that you’d have been down in minutes.

namechangeanonymous · 27/06/2022 14:53

Read that the flight was delayed by about 15 hours already, the poor people on that flight

SheWhoWontBeNamed · 27/06/2022 15:00

Off-topic (sorry), but has anyone noticed a massive increase in air traffic and noise over Sale/Timperley since the start of the year? The airport claims that it's because of wind direction and that we're unused to plane noise because ...covid 🙄Not being funny, but we've lived here for more than ten years and have never been aware of planes overheard before. It's been going on for weeks and is pretty relentless. I've heard various explanations and rumours; the airlines are trying to save fuel/runways are shut (covid again) to it being permanent re-routing away from Knutsford/Mobberley ( the 'green corridor') to the east of Manchester. Does anyone know what's going on?

larkstar · 27/06/2022 15:13

@SheWhoWontBeNamed I've been asking the same question since flights resumed after all the lockdowns so for at least a year I have noticed that planes coming in and leaving Manchester in particular have been flying lower - as low as 5-6,000ft - I'm around the Crewe Stoke-on-Trent area and have lived here for 20 years - self employed and worked from home for about 12 years and I have never noticed as much noise from low flying planes and - as someone who needs peace and quite for my work - I am very sensitive to noise anyway - that's why I have been happy living here for so long but the last year or so something seems to have changed - I know if the wind direction is different the planes will take off and land in different directions so generally I think they try to take off flying into an on-coming headwind. I've not heard any more than that.

WatchoRulo · 27/06/2022 15:17

Not fun, they've been U.K. there over 2hrs doing loop the loops.

They were not doing loop the loops.

Most aircraft squawk most of the time. The Squawk is a quick way to refer to the code number Air Traffic Control gives the plane - it's set in the flight deck by the pilot(s) and appears on the Air traffic control radar screen to track which flight is which rather than having to guess from looking at dots on a screen.

Squawking 7700 is just a standard code to show a plane with an emergency, again so ATC can easily see it.