Air Canada 898 squawking Hijack/Military Intercept Request - Link

ya I would definitely be ordering extra peanuts about now

I'd have thought they'd have sent up something to intercept from Iceland and check things out if this were genuine?
They'd also be sending something up from the UK, with tanker support too to intercept way before it got into British airspace.

How long until the plane is supposed to reach london?

I just went on flightracker. I can't find anywhere on the flight path where it shows they did 360 turn.

Possible they cleaned up the tracking line?

Not real smart when it comes to aviation talk, so a little education please? I take it the one code was reporting hijacked. How long did that last for? Any idea?
Second question, what does it mean when its followed up with the zero's squawk?

PLUMBER1
I just went on flightracker. I can't find anywhere on the flight path where it shows they did 360 turn.

Possible they cleaned up the tracking line?

yes that's why I did a screen grab. When I clicked on full map view it opened a new tab and the flight tracking was changed.

It might just be an automatic thing. I noticed it said the FAA tracking was 5 minutes behind. Maybe that replaces the "live" tracking upon refreshing.

It could be that nothing happened at all.

CitizenJack
How long until the plane is supposed to reach london?

1:35 BST or 12:35 GMT.. I think .

The flight just disappeared off my screen!!!

The screen reset and the flight is not there, what happened?

Originally posted by PLUMBER1
The flight just disappeared off my screen!!!

The screen reset and the flight is not there, what happened?

Gone for me too.

Originally posted by dustytoad

PLUMBER1

edit on 2-9-2013 by xavi1000 because: (no reason given)

lost the track..
mid Atlantic
anyone?

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Do we know any more yet about any further codes?

Yes flight has disappeared off flightracker, quick scan of news sights has nothing on them,yet.

Yeah watching the playback it went to the squawk of 7500 at 28700 feet. So, if this is true, they have known about it for quite awhile now. They weren't that far out when it happened , if it happened. Seems it should have been checked out by now as it was still over Canada for a long time.

I dont tweet, but is there anything more on that front?

same thing happened over Greenland
fingers crossed..

Originally posted by xavi1000

Squawk 7500 .. Hijack code .. Was everyone seeing 7500 earlier as I was seeing 0000

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You might be right..

The reason it went of the tracker might be because its on a lower altitude.
That's the reason they use sports planes for drug smuggling. It flies so low it doesn't appear on the RADAR. So it might be in descent.

Flight aware still has it, sort of.

They show two lines, a solid that shows flight path and a dotted that shows estimated flight path.

The solid line ended north west of Ireland the estimated is still showing.

flightaware.com...