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Emyr
Talking of planes - on my way home from my hols on sunday, flying somewhere over France, I looked out the window and another, smaller, jet plane passed us rather close. I know it's really hard to judge distance in these sorts of situations, but it looked a LOT closer than it should be. Probably within 50 metres below us, at a distance of maybe half a kilometre? Maybe even less. And it had black smoke coming from its engines - not belching it out, but certainly not the light coloured exhaust fumes you normally see.
Couldn't find anything about a close pass or emergency landing on google, but still. Is there anywhere to find out about these things?