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Aerospace Blog

June 30, 2008

Boeing 707 scares Aussies

Posted at 4:16 pm by Michelle Dunlop

The farewell flight of a Boeing Co. 707 by the Royal Australian Air Force struck fear in the hearts of residents in Sydney, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Office workers near the Sydney harbor said they feared the city was under a terrorist attack, according to the publication.

Phillipa Kelly, who works near the harbour, said the noise of the planes stopped work at her office.

"It came very close to the building and we all stopped and said: 'Oh my God! What was that noise?'" she said.

"There's this big passenger plane that has come very close to our building, and it has a fighter plane following it.

"The [passenger] plane had a massive plume of smoke and was losing altitude really quickly."

Office workers had no cause for alarm, said government spokesman, Raveena Carroll-Kenney.

But Mr (Steven) Gunther said: "To think that seeing a Boeing 707 being tailed by a fighter jet flying at low altitude ... wasn't going to cause concern is deplorable.

"In this age of terrorism the defence force should have known better. I have never felt quite so scared."

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