Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker
As you can see i dont post often anymore, just read.
However couple of things in this thread that given the awful topic seem to want people to speculate.. the following is not meant to be speculation but help clarify a couple of the points raised...
The FA20’s are not searching for anyone.. they fly odd paterns everyday, in formation often. - they are a combination of training flights / drills for unspecified military.
The searching UK aircraft and lifeboats are SAR (search and rescue form the Channel Islands) and RNLI respectively and they have spent the last two days in the areas already posted - and the SAR plane and helicopter still are. The RNLI are not
The plane is a US registered plane (c1984 vintage), but that’s a front for UK ownership - not easily traceable without speaking to the ‘ref holder’ in the US (probably operating out of Norfolk UK). The potential pilot’s facebook page seems to have been taken down, but so do many of the UK papers pages who overnight said he was the pilot.
The PPRUNE site listed is a bunch of so called pilots / pilots / people guessing the same as us. Without reading the paper history of the exact plane not much can tell them the service history. The exact plane is clearly known and its US reg available, it was not fitted with a ‘tracker’ for FR24 - the tracking site
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