very low plane

[sophie_1003]

Not sure where to put this so going for the old failsafe of Chatterbank! Today when driving along the A5 in Northamptonshire, going northbound, about four miles from Flore Hill near Weedon I saw an extremely low plane flying over to the east. It was possibly a military plane but does anyone know of any reason why it would be so low (apart from landing) or where it could have been going?

[sophie_1003]

It was big, at first glance I assumed it was a small passenger plane but then realised it was grey so probably the Hercules. Does that give us a clue as to where it would be going?

[Prudie]

Well no I can't AlBags!!! But if you put flightradar24.com into google it comes up. Brilliant.

[Prudie]

PS You'll have to teach me sometime.
Goodnight x

[AlBags]

Thanks : )
Probably to or from Lyneham .. (Wiltshire)
But we also operated them out of Brize Norton (Burford)
But could have been going anywhere.

[AlBags]

Night all .. I'm off too .. long day today.

[sophie_1003]

Hmm, it must have been landing somewhere else, either that or was going to very quickly pull up and carry on flying, honestly it was that low!

[Prudie]

I grew up at Lyneham, dad flew Britannias

[AlBags]

Sound of Hercs in your ears then! : )
Nice old birds .. Brittanias.

[4getmenot]

Thanks for brekkie this morning albags :-)

[sandyRoe]

It might have been that Nigel Farage of UKIP. His plane couldn't get any lower, it just crashed while towing a political poster.

[bobjugs12]

Sophie,
Did it look like this:
http://www.flightglob...ft-pictures/C130J.jpg
http://www.combatairc...aircraft/cc130_vl.jpg

If so that was a Herc out of Lyneham

[vulcan]

Here's the link for air traffic over Europe, but as I mentioned on a previous thread,it isn't particularly accurate. I checked it on the day flights resumed after the volcano and spotted one aircraft over Spain.
When I checked the flight plan discovered it was on an internal flight over Turkey.
http://www.flightradar24.com/

[AlBags]

No problems 4get .. sorry sausage was a bit frazzled : )