Chinook claims wire strike An RAF Chinook of 18(B)sq (ZA683, msn MA014/M7031) was forced to make an unplanned landing on Carmarthenshire farmland near Llangynin, Wales. The Ministry of Defence says the incident happened on Tuesday evening 28 July. Twin-engined helicopter crew suffered "minor injuries". Military chiefs add the Chinook was on a training exercise at the time. A 'wire strike' is suspected to be the cause. Pam Windsor, a community councillor in Llangynin, says her electricity cut off after her family heard a "loud sort of droning noise of a helicopter very close by". She says: "We went outside and we could see the Chinook very low, just passing over the village heading towards fields in the distance." Credit: BBC News Picture 1 Aircraft Picture 2 ADSB flight path Picture 3 Landing site So I'd love to use this as a discussion point for gaps in signal coverage and "spotty flight paths". Without armchair piloting the incident to much they were probably flying low for a fair segment of their training that evening. But I've seen routes where the line gets faded and I assume the program just fills in the gaps between good signal reception. But I've also seen where I believe it gets partial signal and makes the aircraft bounce all over the world at impossible speed, like it does over Gloucester. Do we know how these errors get received and interpreted by the computer? The aircraft came to rest around Llangynin but the signal shows way up north. So its last reported position was one where it wasn't really good data. Obviously this system isn't designed for emergency response but if that is the data big government saw too or say this is all the Civil Air Patrol had to go on they would be looking in the wrong place. I guess my question is does anyone better understand the phantom signals and is there a way to get any good data out of it? Obviously this area needs some more independently run receivers.
