steveMY

Hi, is somebody informed, why there is so much noise in the air all day long.
Is this only a temporary exercice or more? Would be nice to get some information.

Davita

Are you sure it isn't MH370 on a return trip. It flew over Penang on its way out of Malaysia...while those aircraft sat idle at RMAF Butterworth.

InVinoVeritas

Must be military exercises. Not much peace and quiet in Penang these days

SushiFan

Could it be related to this (reported on March 2nd): Drill between VAT 69 and US Army delights crowd - Nation | The Star Online

Stuck in Auckland

When you pick a fight with N Korea

InVinoVeritas

I don't think so, it is definitely one or more jets at some altitude and not a helicopter noise. I've noticed the same noise in the past sometimes and have just assumed it's RMAF Butterworth.

OriginalSunshine

Tasteless. Some of us knew people on that flight.

Davita

And I may have known some people on the Titanic but that doesn't mean movies, sketches and off-color jokes aren't made.

I'm sorry you knew some people on that flight. I have also known many who didn't survive flight accidents. I was aircrew with the RAF for 22 years, and been shot down in Kuching myself, but I don't fret over it.

Maybe you should pursue inquiry into why the RMAF didn't send those aircraft up from Butterworth to investigate the errant MH370 and get answers...there's where you should focus your grief.

Davita

My post #2 intent was to make a subtle point....but perhaps I was too subtle.
Next week (8th March) is the anniversary of the MH370 disappearance.
On that fateful night, over Butterworth and the north tip of Penang, an unidentified aircraft flew over the area. This was observed by military radar in KL.......and yet they did nothing, all the while multi-all-weather-fighter aircraft lay idle on the ground at RMAF Butterworth.
It was later concluded it must have been MH370 yet the subsequent search and rescue effort for MH370 was directed in the Gulf of Thailand, which wasted valuable time for the black-box transponder to continue to work.

This question of why the fighters at Butterworth weren't scrambled to identify an errant aircraft flying over a military installation has never been answered, and no-one has been held accountable. That action alone may have saved lives.

My point, on a thread about recent aircraft noise in the same area, was to have a dig at that issue and wonder if maybe the RMAF have woken-up to their previous failure, on MH370's 3rd anniversary, and now exercising....in case it's ever repeated.

I apologize to those that feel they've been insulted, or that my post was tasteless and lacked empathy, but suggest that emotion should be directed at the Malaysian Government for not giving proper explanations...one way is to scatter subtle hints and let them fall...wherever. ...

steveMY

@Davita, you can talk about mh370 but please in a separate thread.

To come back to my original question, I feel that there must be more military air traffic in this area. Hope we will come back to normal soon.

Nobby J

Perhaps they were training fro the Langkawi air show