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A US Air Force refuelling jet, the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker has been reported as disappeared off the radar over the English Channel.
The jet left Amiens in northern France at 0.05am local time and was last reported by a flight tracking website to be flying between Dover and Calais.
Fifteen minutes after take-off, at 0.20am, the aircraft fell off the tracking website.
The jet however landed an hour later at RAF Mildenhall, the Royal Air Force station located near Mildenhall in Suffolk.
Read more: sputniknews.com...
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: smurfy
Not directly no. They'd be risking serious damage to the aircraft if they landed over weight. They'd do some troubleshooting of the problem, as well as burning off some fuel weight.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: smurfy
Oh, I haven't conformed his mission yet, but tankers are frequently used to move cargo around which means even for short hops they'll take off heavy. If they were moving a fighter unit for example, at least one of the tankers would carry spare engines, toolkits, parts and pieces, etc.