BREAKING: 2 squawk 7700 alerts over London right now!

RYR landed

whats this mean? cool link tho

Emergency or hijacking?

Nice find!

emergency

Ive seen flight tracking animations before too!

Its really cool isnt it?

love watching it in air while flying too!

50 feet ??

BA and RYR landing.

bishops stortford airport ?

what the FUCK was that?

that did not look right last i saw was 600 feet then 50 feet now nothing ?

Cool site--looks like a swarm of locusts over urban areas.

Care to elaborate for those who have no idea what you are talking about but are interested?

For instance--what is a BA and a RYR?


Last Edited by stillhere on 09/06/2012 06:32 PM

and what's a squawk? Thanks

BA = british airways
Ryar = ryan air
squawk =emergency , A hink

BA = British Airlines

RYR = Ryan International Airlines out of Ireland

Sqwak in avation terms refers to a transponder ident number.

However I dont believe that 7700 means anything.
I believe 777 is hijacking.

Basically, to identify planes on the towers radar screen, the tower will ask a pilot to "sqwak" a number. The pilot enters the number in thier transponder and that transponder echos that number back to the tower in the next radar ping.

Squawk refers to the transponder code that they are transmitting. Aircraft are given codes to squawk so air traffic controllers can identify them on their screens.

7700 means emergency.

Didn't see your post when I posted mine.

7500 is hijacking.

7700 = emergency code
7500 = hijacking code

the 7700 code, could be for a variety of reasons from faulty landing gear to a sick passanger to fuel problems to almost anything else possible

Thank you all, you learn something new everyday.

Check this link [link to www.avherald.com]

Hopefully it will appear on their site shortly.

Last Edited by Prolag on 09/06/2012 03:47 PM

What's to BS?? There were 2 planes squawking 7700 earlier...

There's no logic to your flag, sparkles.

and what IS THE EMERGENCY? are the 2 planes will crash into your house? get in you bunker fast

Icbm?

What the fukk is going on here??