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Pilots feared UK-bound easyJet flight would be shot down!

by Babel-Fish | August 25, 2009 at 01:26 am

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The pilots of a holiday jet which suffered a potentially catastrophic electrical fault refused to divert to a nearer landing spot because they feared they would be shot down by military craft.

The easyJet Airbus A319 lost all radio contact with the ground when its systems failed, an official report concluded yesterday.

The captain was forced to fly manually after the instrument screens in the cockpit went blank.

There is definatly a need to have a secondary electric source and a secondary radio on civil aircraft in this day and age it should be easy to instal.

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Babel-Fish

at 19:11 on August 27th, 2009

I thought it was strange that there was not a secondary system and of course there is, the story does stink and that's for sure

Grant Smtih (not verified)

at 07:42 on August 25th, 2009

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Babel-Fish

at 19:25 on August 27th, 2009

After reading the comments of the source, I am beginning to think the article was a bit of creative journalism.

Planes just can not land at airports with out contact permission from the ground unless its a real emergency. I don't see any report of that within the story. I really wished journalist would not stoop to creative journalism.