CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT INTERCEPTED BY THE RSAF
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Viper = F-16Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:eh? whats viper ah? i forgot....
Btw, in one of the news reports, an eyewitness said he saw, from his flat in teck whye, skyhawks scrambling and taking off. Anyone knows which block gives a good vantage view of tengah's runway? -
correct me if I am wrong, I though I read a report in NP that says that the civilian plane was approaching TAB when our fighters intercepted it.
If it was only spotted on our radar or known to us only when it almost reaches our main AFB, then our surveillance and monitoring assets in place have failed. If it is spotted on our radar and other surveillance assets well before it approaches our airspace without permission/filing flight plan, it should deemed to be hostile. I am not advocating that we should shoot on sight but our interception response is a bit slow ? -
tengah? i do believe its surrounded either by farms or camps. blocks having a view of the runway? i think no one would want their house to be tt close to an airbase! and rsaf wont allow tt too.Originally posted by IAF:Viper = F-16
Btw, in one of the news reports, an eyewitness said he saw, from his flat in teck whye, skyhawks scrambling and taking off. Anyone knows which block gives a good vantage view of tengah's runway? -
How does the RSAF AWACS co-ordinate with the CAAS Control at Changi Airport ?
It is amazing that from the ST News Report, the Skyhawks were scrambled after the light plane was detected circling around the "NORTH-EAST" part of Singapore, above Tengah Air Base.
Firstly, someone at ST must have got his sense of geography pathetically messed up, as Tengah Air Base is at North-West of Singapore.
Secondly, if the Skyhawks were scrambled, only when light plane was detected after 30 minutes of circling over Tengah Air Base - (as it seems that the pilot was working hard to manually lower his landing gears) - then the security over the Singapore sky is totally ridiculous during this period of supposedly heightened security. -
Originally posted by Atobe:
dude, the MPs should raise this matter in parliament. Last time matthias rust flew his tiny plane and landed on the red square in the former soviet union, i believe some very 'atas' soviet general had to step down.
How does the RSAF AWACS co-ordinate with the CAAS Control at Changi Airport ?
It is amazing that from the ST News Report, the Skyhawks were scrambled after the light plane was detected circling around the "NORTH-EAST" part of Singapore, above Tengah Air Base.
Firstly, someone at ST must have got his sense of geography pathetically messed up, as Tengah Air Base is at North-West of Singapore.
Secondly, if the Skyhawks were scrambled, only when light plane was detected [b]after 30 minutes of circling over Tengah Air Base - (as it seems that the pilot was working hard to manually lower his landing gears) - then the security over the Singapore sky is totally ridiculous during this period of supposedly heightened security.
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Originally posted by Atobe:
The plane had filed a proper flight plan and nothing seemed wrong until it fly near Tengah airbase and did not respond to radio signals.It was only then that the RSAF was scrambled to deal with the plane.Basically there was no reason to suspect that the plane was hostile or even that something was wrong until it flew into the airbase.
How does the RSAF AWACS co-ordinate with the CAAS Control at Changi Airport ?
It is amazing that from the ST News Report, the Skyhawks were scrambled after the light plane was detected circling around the "NORTH-EAST" part of Singapore, above Tengah Air Base.
Firstly, someone at ST must have got his sense of geography pathetically messed up, as Tengah Air Base is at North-West of Singapore.
Secondly, if the Skyhawks were scrambled, only when light plane was detected [b]after 30 minutes of circling over Tengah Air Base - (as it seems that the pilot was working hard to manually lower his landing gears) - then the security over the Singapore sky is totally ridiculous during this period of supposedly heightened security.
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It is seriously worrisome when the RSAF Skyhawks were scrambled into the air, only when the light aircraft was detected "CIRCLING" Tengah Air Base for 30 minutes.
One would have thought that any aircraft straying into a restricted area - within a corridor of error of 1 kilometer - would have been warned off by radio contact.
If radio contact cannot be established within 5 minutes, the Skyhawks would have been scrambled, and no chances would be taken.
Singapore is such a small island that 5 minutes in the air would have covered wide territory, and any malicious act from the air would have been accomplished in that 30 minutes before it was detected.