Oswald Ballbag
Midfield
Lockerbie air disaster
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Aye anyone older would remember all that but I remember the images on the news and thinking where the fuck is Lockerbie. Now, everyone knows, for the wrong reasons obviously.Very sad - still vividly remember the first news flash
Iirc it came from a western direction.Was the flight path over the north east?
Where I live is a flight path to ponteland airport
I know Lockerbie is towards the west coast of Scotland but you see very high flights, heading in that direction over ours sometimesIirc it came from a western direction.
From the link:I know Lockerbie is towards the west coast of Scotland but you see very high flights, heading in that direction over ours sometimes
The lower ones are in their approach to ponteland when they pass over ours. On a night, you can see faces at the windows sometimes
Thanks again.From the link:
To establish the flight Path across the UK, I return to the conversation with ATC Brown:
Q And then A20 route?
A It was a low level airway from London Heathrow going through a reporting point called
Trent, which is TNT.
Q And then, "upper alfa 2 Pole Hill UB for [156] Margo direct Glasgow."
A That's the route that the aircraft would continue to take. After Trent, it would proceed via Upper Humber 2, via Pole Hill, upper Bravo 4 to Margo, flight direct from Margo to Glasgow, and then follows the upper air route 590 to 59 north and 10 west.
Q And then we see, "/ mach No. 0.84." What does that refer to?
A As it crosses the oceanic boundary and comes under oceanic control, the separation on
the ocean is made by reference to a mach number rather than a physical speed and knot.
And therefore the aircraft had planned to fly at mach decimal 84.
Q Mach being the speed of sound?
A Mach being the speed of sound.
Q And then "estimated elapsed times," what does that refer to?
A The estimated elapsed time in number 5 are -- it takes him one hour 24 minutes to get to
10 degrees west. To 20 west is two hour nine minutes. To 30 west is two hour 47 minutes.
So it's cumulative times as it proceeds across the north Atlantic.
Q Thank you very much.