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| Sonic boom: loud bang that shook London caused by supersonic fighter jets | |
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| Typhoon jets scrambled in response to plane that was not answering air traffic control | Typhoon jets 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 and the MoD said. | A huge bang heard across London and in Hertfordshire just after 4am on Sunday was caused by RAF jets going supersonic, the Met and the MoD said. |
| “Two Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled at 0409 this morning, as part of the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace,” said the Ministry of Defence. “The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established. The Typhoons are returning to their base.” | “Two Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled at 0409 this morning, as part of the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace,” said the Ministry of Defence. “The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established. The Typhoons are returning to their base.” |
| Flight tracking sites showed that two Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby around the time of the noise. | Flight tracking sites showed that two Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby around the time of the noise. |
| 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. | 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. |