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Out on a long bicycle ride today (I went over 90km, still can't crack the 20km/h average speed barrier though).

While stopped at a traffic light near Paya Lebar, I saw a jet aircraft flying low, really really low, over the buildings. It looked like it was about to land.

Since this is a long long way from Changi airport, I would say either (i) something had gone seriously wrong, or (ii) it was a military aircraft landing at Paya Lebar airstrip.

My first impression, in the first second or so of the view (and there were only a few seconds) was that it looked like a fairly standard issue twin-engine civilian jet. Big, at least 737 or A320 big, quite possibly bigger. Definitely a jet, one engine under each wing. Wingtips curved up a bit, not sure whether they were really curved or sharply bent up. I didn't really make out any markings on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_ ... _Air_Force

So it could have been an A-330. Any other possibilities?

The civilian passenger jets have all started to look alike. There are the A-380 and the 747, but they're both on the way out - the rest are all twin-engine jets.

Well, there's the A340, but that's on the way out, too. Brought Son I and me to Merka in '17.

Arneb wrote:Well, there's the A340, but that's on the way out, too. Brought Son I and me to Merka in '17.

I was looking over the stats for the A340, and was inclined to say, no one has ever died on one.

But I don't really know that, it's possible someone died due to some medical condition while on one, with no crash or other aircraft malfunction at work.

Maybe we can say nobody died because of one.

About the same location, but months later.



Is this a Hercules?

Looks like a C-130 Hercules to me.

I think the original sighting (for which, there is, regrettably, no photo) was probably about here.

https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3166988,103.8915049,17z

If one zooms out, the air base (military) is visible to the north, not far away - that sighting was a jet, and it was close - I could only see it between the buildings as it was coming in for a landing.

Today's sighting was probably from somewhere near here - I have shifted my bicycle route to the west.

https://www.google.com/maps/@1.322287,103.8802933,17z

I see fighters a lot (usually farther west - there is another military air base), but they are loud.