Sunday, November 8, 2015

British tour plane to Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, narrowly avoided an ISIS missile


It sounds like this was the sort of missile that Muslim terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah regularly fire into Israel rather than the type of surface to air missile that bought down the plane over Ukraine earlier this year. A Daily Mail (UK) article :-

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A British plane carrying 189 passengers came 'within 1,000ft' of a rocket as it approached Sharm El Sheikh, it emerged last night.

The Thomson flight from London Stansted only took evasive action after the pilot spotted the missile speeding through the air.

The jet landed safely, and holidaymakers were not told they had been seconds from disaster.

The revelation comes amid claims British jihadists had spoken about an Islamic State 'mole' at Sharm el-Sheikh airport minutes after a Metrojet plane crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 on board.

Full article

Update -- this has since been dismissed by the British Foreign Secretary.

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