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Low Flying Aircraft Over South Of England  
User currently offlineeugegall From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2009, 87 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1404 times:

Afternoon all,

I saw what looked to be a Qatar 777/A330 flying over Surrey. Looked like it was turning base for runway 24 at Farnborough (FAB)

We normally see these aircraft going in and out of heathrow but not at this height. Guessing 2000ft. At around 17:10 Local time.

Cheers

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User currently offlineKPDX From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2527 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1332 times:

Maybe the Qatar pilots forgot the airshow is at Paris this year?   


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User currently offlineSURFER From Ireland, joined May 2008, 148 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1316 times:

It was QAF003 an A320 arriving into FAB at 1713local.

User currently offlineeugegall From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2009, 87 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1256 times:

Thanks for the info. Not sure how i managed to get the aircraft type so incorrect.

May i ask why they were flying in there? Is it a regular scheduled service?

User currently offlinetrident3 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 1012 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1090 times:

Something to do with Royal Ascot next week perhaps?


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User currently offlineSURFER From Ireland, joined May 2008, 148 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1020 times:

Quoting eugegall (Reply 3):
May i ask why they were flying in there? Is it a regular scheduled service?

Not scheduled,aircraft is a vip transport.

User currently offlinenoelg From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1020 times:

According to flightradar24 it was A7-AAG, an A320 belonging to Qatar Amiri Flight, inbound direct from DOH.

These aircraft are for the exclusive use of the Qatari Royal Family and senior government officials, so that will be the reason it was headed to FAB, probably some sort of meeting going on.

User currently offlineSURFER From Ireland, joined May 2008, 148 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (1 year 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 961 times:

Quoting noelg (Reply 6):
According to flightradar24 it was A7-AAG, an A320 belonging to Qatar Amiri Flight, inbound direct from DOH.

Its filed out to NICE for later on this evening.
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