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| Loud bang heard across London 'caused by supersonic fighter jets' | Loud bang heard across London 'caused by supersonic fighter jets' |
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| Typhoon jets apparently scrambled in response to plane that was not answering air traffic control | Typhoon jets apparently scrambled in response to plane that was not answering air traffic control |
| A huge bang heard across London and in Hertfordshire just after 4am on Sunday was caused by RAF jets going supersonic, the Met said. | A huge bang heard across London and in Hertfordshire just after 4am on Sunday was caused by RAF jets going supersonic, the Met said. |
| Flight tracking sites showed two Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby around the time of the noise, apparently as a precautionary response to a plane that was not responding to air traffic control. | Flight tracking sites showed two Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby around the time of the noise, apparently as a precautionary response to a plane that was not responding to air traffic control. |
| A resident of Forest Gate, east London, told the Guardian he had already been awake and “thought something had fallen down in our house,” while similar experiences were recounted on social media, with posts about windows being rattled and car alarms set off. | A resident of Forest Gate, east London, told the Guardian he had already been awake and “thought something had fallen down in our house,” while similar experiences were recounted on social media, with posts about windows being rattled and car alarms set off. |
| People living in Essex, west London and Stevenage were among those tweeting to say they had been woken by the noise, and Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue said it received a “large number” of calls about the incident. |