Excuse the crude wording but Airliners are not my strong point!
I have just been on the A421 coming from Herts back to Milton Keynes. I got to Kempsford (Bedford) area when I saw a LARGE passenger plane (x4 engines) heading from a north-west to south-east direction (basically on a straight line to Cranfield) with the landing gear down. It looked silver in colour with many cabin windows, could have been white and just a trick of the light, definately not military grey though, there were tail markings but I cannot tell you the colour or style as it was behind me. Not sure on models of airliners but it looked like it could carry maybe 120 people. The plane was no more than 700ft up and was coming down slowly.
The visibility is good here, no rain and some wind. I could see no smoke or anything coming from the plane and it wasn't making any horrible noises.
It was WAY too low to be going to Luton and why would it have the landing gear down so early if it had been?
Does anyone know anything about this as it really didn't look right and I have never ever seen a passenger plane so low before with the gear down in that area and I use that road often.
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Hmmm OK panic over, someone on UKAR posted that Cranfield has a BAe 146
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAe_146
Looks spot on to what I saw. FFS, I didn't know anything that big was at Cranfield and it really scared the sh!t outta me at that height as well
Thats the LAST time I complain about not seeing much aircraft around here because I really saw too much at far to close a range of that one today!
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