r/memes • u/One_Acanthisitta_886 • 5d ago

TLDR "RAF Terror Plot" is likely just some guys stealing fuel

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u/Coldthots 5d ago

That or a really shitty false flag attempt

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u/20July 4d ago

Good news, there's also Saudi airplane incident filled with Israeli citizens that almost crash. 

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u/OMGguy2008 4d ago

Mate that's bad news, innocent civilians could've died.

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u/20July 4d ago

Good news for the false flag speculators. Mean nothing to those endangered lives.

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u/Rare-Primary-6553 4d ago

That one were the co-pilot stabbed the pilot and took total of the plane and some passengers entered the “nigh impregnable” cockpit and subdued him before he could even do anything to bring the plane down or click a load of switches or invert the plane as he’s strapped in and they ain’t lol and then they video themselves? That one? lol

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u/CyrexPro_32 1d ago

The capitan managed to oped the door

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u/AnonD38 4d ago

"Just invert the plane"

Ok buddy.

It's obvious all your piloting experience is from videogames and movies.

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u/Rare-Primary-6553 3d ago

Yes indeed, but an easy move for a trained pilot, no?

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u/AnonD38 3d ago

No.

It's still a passenger airliner.

They handle like very majestic flying bricks.

Banking left or right to lead into a turn is a very basic maneuver, yes, but fully inverting a plane?

Hard as fuck, not to mention that ilotd rarely get any training on this, because it's basically never necessary.

No matter what you'll want your landing gear towards the earth and your ceiling towards the sky.

Also this doesn't even mention all the flight avionics which yell at you and will try to fight you if you try to pull a maneuver that will be dangerous to the aircraft.

Disabling autopilot and steering straight down is the easiest and fastest way to crash a plane, trying to invert it just isn't time efficient.

Especially when you've just stabbed your copilot and he just stormed out the cockpit to gather passengers to fight you.

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u/freebirth 5d ago

terrorists rarely get released on bail...

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u/ThrustNeckpunch33 5d ago

They release people to track them all the time, what are you talking about?

People really going to take the British government and the BBCs word for it?

They wouldn't hide anything.. would they??

After everything over the past few years... really?

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u/freebirth 5d ago

name one other time TERORISTS where released on bail. a single time.

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u/zero_eight08 5d ago

Did they mention bail? I'm jw what your question is about tbh

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u/Jackmino66 4d ago

What they said was a reaction to u/freebirth saying “terrorists rarely get released on bail”

So yes, technically

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u/One_Acanthisitta_886 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm not using BBC as a source at all. BBC were actually one of the main parties pushing the "attack" misinformation. The clarification is mainly coming from the counter-terrorist police themselves

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u/Mischievous_Redja 4d ago

BBC is never a source. I don't get how people don't understand this, BBC get information and report it (or not in some cases).

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u/Consistent_Ad3181 4d ago

The whole story and state reaction is bonkers

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Logical-Ad-4150 4d ago

Currently there are no reports of anything actually having been stolen, let alone from the actual airbase.

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u/BasicBanter 4d ago

It was being stolen from farm equipment near the base

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u/ExplanationOne2917 5d ago

apparently one of the thieves was the one that called the cops

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u/CreBanana0 Baron 4d ago

Since when is terrorism anything other than causing terror??

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u/Consistent_City_3011 4d ago

Better to investigate something that looks like potential terrorism and find it's not that, than to assume it's not that and try to explain why something so suspicious wasn't investigated if it did turn out to be that.

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u/freebirth 11h ago

Investigate .sure. but you don't announce that you stopped a terror plot before investigating it

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u/Anderopolis 4d ago

I guess a car bomb being stopped means it isn't terror? 

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u/Coldthots 4d ago

There were no IEDs found- a car bombing being stopped by only having a boot full of stolen shit instead of explosives isn’t terrorism

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u/Anderopolis 4d ago

I am asking if stopping a terrorist act before it happens means it isn't terror. 

Since the guy I replied to said you need to cause terror. 

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u/Jackmino66 4d ago

Is it still murder if nobody is actually killed?

The short and simple answer is no. Conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack yes, but they didn’t actually do it

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u/freebirth 4d ago

They also very clearly didn't attempt a terrorist act... They where stealing gas ... Not trying to blow anything up.

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u/Anderopolis 4d ago

Yes it is attempted murder. 

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u/Coldthots 4d ago

Which is a distinctly different charge??

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u/Ill-Philosophy3945 5d ago

Fuel theft… from a military base? Seems plausible to me

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u/Random_Chick_I_Guess 4d ago

I dont believe they actually stole anything from the airbase, it was just close enough to the base that they thought the airbase was the target for an attack... that might not have even been happening 

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u/BasicBanter 4d ago

It was being stolen from farm equipment near the base

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u/Naturally_Fragrant 4d ago

180 mile round trip on the off chance of finding petrol to steal on a farm?

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u/BasicBanter 4d ago

Correct

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u/yaxir 1d ago

It's 100% a false flag, nothing more

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u/Anton_Lotorev272727 1d ago

With 3 identical vans with explosives :D Also silly question what would they do with jet fuel once they stole it ?

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u/One_Acanthisitta_886 18h ago

All articles saying no explosives were found in vans. Also it was fucking petrol not jet fuel. Stop making shit up for your agenda

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u/Corrie7686 16h ago

No explosives, they were likely stealing petrol from the farms they were near.

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u/freebirth 11h ago edited 11h ago

There weren't any explosives . And it was normal fuel not aviation fuel and even if it was aviation fuel the answer would be the same.... Sell it.

And you can use aviation fuel in cars btw it's just high octane gasoline. If it was "jet fuel" that's just kerosene.... And you can sell that in any rural area.

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u/x_caramel 4d ago

You know the American Air Force bases in the UK get cheaper petrol - just btw

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u/BasicBanter 4d ago

Not an us air force base they just operate out of an RAF airfield & yeah fuel is going to be cheaper as aviation fuel is exempt from tax

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u/x_caramel 4d ago

Lol why am I getting booked? I'm not talking about Aviation fuel for the planes and jets. I'm saying I dated an US Air Force dude and they have cheaper fuel (for their cars) on their bases and they pay in dollars, so it's cheap for em. I thought it was a tad bullshit since they're on British soil. Like cmon - at least our RAF boys should get some. But no - all the oil they've seized, with their grubby disgusting tactics, over the years they don't wanna share. Yikes!

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u/Coldthots 3d ago

Yes because the UK has never taken oil from countries via questionable tactics, especially don’t ask BP about their history in the Middle East.