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Small private jet doing loops over Sai Kung

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  1. #11

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    It was the GFS aircraft. It did multiple passes of High Island area around the time of the thunderstorms.

    These aircraft also do aerial photography/mapping.


  2. #12

    Yup, it's GFS. Look like they were doing slow flight and making 360s at 1000ft@180kts. Maybe they were taking pictures of the boats after the whole chinese coastguard and fishing boat thing.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Miaofromcali:
    Yup, it's GFS. Look like they were doing slow flight and making 360s at 1000ft@180kts. Maybe they were taking pictures of the boats after the whole chinese coastguard and fishing boat thing.


    The plane was likely engaged in catching and deterring NSL political "criminals":

    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...an-intercepted
    Last edited by Coolboy; 03-09-2020 at 05:31 PM.
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    Not sure if this is related.... Am a bit clueless about where the 12 were caught.


    https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/sta...376734721?s=20


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    ^Hmm the 12 were arrested on Aug 23 and OP saw the jet on Sep 2 so maybe not related?

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    Given the reaction from Lam, I guess they are related.

    https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...7-20201006.htm

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    So I guess you can expect to continue to see government planes doing loops around HK waters on the lookout....