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[Rods2]

Probably as US recently laid on a special flight to ROI to extradite in their words "the world's most prolific pedo porn supplier". For the most wanted you get your own personal free flight & free board and lodgings foe the rest of your natural life.

[Kevin Wood]

Would the plane not fly out of Northolt rather than one of the more commercial airports?

I heard Northolt was close due to runway resurfacing. Prudent when they're going to have to rip it up again to build Heathrow runway 3.

[LC0112G]

Would the plane not fly out of Northolt rather than one of the more commercial airports?

The Polish and Czech 'rendition flights' normally operate out of Biggin Hill. USAF C-32B's are very rare in the UK, but they normally operate to/from a USAF base like Mildenhall where they can control the security around the airplane a bit better. Ground staff don't even get to the bottom step of the air-stairs.

However, given this is a fairly high profile case, I doubt the USAF will want to expose too much of their clandestine ops to the Daily Mail/Sun. C-130 or C-17 therefore likely.