Police say plane with two people onboard lost contact and had to be escorted to Stansted airport
A loud noise thought to be a sonic boom, which was heard by many people acrossThe plane had two people onboard and was flying from Iceland to Nairobi, Kenya via Southend when it lost contact and had to be escorted to Stansted airport, police said.
The MoD said it always had jets under a “quick reaction alert” that respond to any aircraft that cannot be identified or is not communicating with either civilian or military air traffic control. Many people went on social media to describe the sound. Plane spotters suggested it may have come from an RAF Typhoon fighter jet scrambling to intercept another aircraft in distress.
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