Bang!
| Rachel Ramsay |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 18:33 Who are you going to lobby to have the fighter pilots punished then Jean? 😂🙄 |
| Olivia ZetterstromHealy |
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| Brian Murray |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 16:32 Oh dear Michelle, that website looks as though it will cost me a lot of time spent exploring world aviation. Amazing! |
| michele marietta |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 14:38 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n362ph |
| Malcolm Blackmore |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 13:54 It was at 12.13hr so the time might help with any websites giving information. Pretty sure it was a single aircraft at supersonic speed due to the characteristics of the double bang from the leading edges compression of the air and the trailing edges very shortly after that. The last… |
| Tim at Cotswold Frames |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 13:31 Papers say- The ground was reportedly shaking and houses were rocked as far south as Oxford as well as 70 miles north in Leicester at around 12.15pm today. There were reports that it may have been RAF Typhoon fighter jets scrambling to help a Dash 8 aircraft that had radio failure and was heading to London. Hundreds of people have heard a loud explosion believed to be a sonic boom across central England. Aviation Highlights tweeted: 'The fighters were reportedly supersonic on their way south from RAF Coningsby.' 'Aircraft currently being escorted to London Stansted Airport. |
| Deborah Longshaw |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:50 Thought it was a Sonic Boom. Out walking the dogs up in the fields by Woody Lane, so clear view across our area & with no sign of smoke or sirens, a Sonic Boom was the only thing it could be. Quite impressive! |
| Jean Adams |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:39 Heard loud and clear at Baywell Cottage. Hope the perpetrators receive a punishment. |
| Katie Ewer |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:32 https://twitter.com/jackjmatthews/status/1631992235657949186?t=hCeDntfJBQb-chJ0RoXHSg&s=19 |
| Katie Ewer |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:30 Heard in Middle Barton too. Sonic boom apparently... |
| James Goad |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:25 Heard it on Rochester Place. Sounded very big. I hope nobody is hurt. |
| Alan Cobb |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:23 Woke my cat up - she is not amused! |
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Colin Critch
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:22 (last edited on Sat 4 Mar 2023, 13:27) Yes in Crawborough too. |
| Diana Limburg |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:20 Loud bang heard in Sandford Park. Made curtains move - clearly came with a pressure wave. No clue what caused it. |
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Richard Broughton
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:19 Yup, heard all over it seems. Question is, planned or unplanned? |
| Tim Woodall |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:19 Also shook the house here on the bottom of the Slade |
| stephen cavell |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:19 Enstone X roads. Sounded to me like an explosion bang |
| Malcolm Blackmore |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:19 Lots of birds wheeling randomly in the air up here in The Green. |
| Katherine Holmes |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:18 Also Stonesfield Lane! Shook the house. |
| Graham Wisker |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:17 Heard it up in Elm Crescent |
| Sandy Fairhurst |
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Sat 4 Mar 2023, 12:16 Anyone identify the huge bang I just heard? Sure it wasn’t only in Nine Acres Close… |
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