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strange contrail

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Hi All,

Sitting in my garden, I saw a plane passing by with quite a big contrail. As a spotter I look at every plane passing by and knew this did not look normal. I got my binoculars and took a look at it. It was a 2-engine British Airways plane(I am a military spotter and did not know the type) which I thought to be a triple 7. The contrails were not coming of the engines, but somewhere between the engines and the tip of the wing. In al my life I have not seen anything like this.

Does somebody knows what this is? And why it happens?

See attached picture, which I took with a small pocket camera, so I apologize for the poor quality.

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thnx,
Gerben
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Bank_angle
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Re: strange contrail

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Maybe he is dumping Feul....
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That was my first guess as well.

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Re: strange contrail

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And my first guess as well, because he doesn't made other contrails.
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Chemtrails?

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jb5 wrote:Chemtrails?
:lol: Ja, dat dacht ik ook meteen. Bedankt voor de link naar de complotdenkers. Heel grappig.
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Re: strange contrail

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This aircraft is dumping fuel. Just google 'dumped fuel' and have look at the 'afbeeldingen van.....'.
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Re: strange contrail

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Hi.

Could this have been the G-YMMI of BA ? On route from LHR to PVG my SBS showed a strange turn of more then 60 degrees. Was in the area of Beverwijk around 15.40.
Might be returning to LHR (BA169).

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On Casper see can be seen turning 180 degrees and descending. Heading back towards LHR.

Great catch!
What goes up..........Must come down for maintenance
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Re: strange contrail

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..........and BA169 airborne again now showing G-YMMN ( Flightradar24.com ), five minutes ago.
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Re: strange contrail

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Picture was made around 1548 hours at Maassluis, 20 km west of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Plane was flying to the west.
Grtz,
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That's spot on with the radar track.
Some Pax got a extra t/o & lnd for their money :P
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Re: strange contrail

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This was a BA flight flown by a friend of mine. Enroute to Shanghai, their B-777-200 lost oil quantity, then pressure, on the number two engine so they had to dump fuel and return to base. Can someone send me the original photo, he'd like to have it.
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