Jay,

I don't think I was one of the ones you were talking about but I can give
you some idea of what's going on around the city. I'm now officially a Brit
(got citizenship on 8 Jun, oddly enough, the 15th anniversary of my
commissioning as an officer in the USAF) and live in Twickenham, which is
about 10 miles west of the center of the city and still within the greater
metropolitan area.

There still seem to be a lot of people missing as the hospitals are still
treating quite a lot who may have not yet been identified and some of the
tube trains are still in situ with bodies on them. I can't imagine what
that recovery job is like. I think the death toll stands at around 50 right
now (Sunday morning), but that may rise as injured succumb to wounds. I
also think they had some real trouble identifiying what went on and who was
killed in the bus explosion. It seems like that explosion was pretty big
and complicated in terms of identification. On Saturday they confirmed that
they thought 13 had been killed on the bus.

I don't know any of the pilots you mentioned so, unfortunately, I can't give
any reassurance on any of them.

London has pretty much just picked itself up and gotten on with it.
Theaters and everything else were open again the next day. Obviously the
effected Tube lines will be closed for some time but those outside that
immediate area of geography or movement patterns seem to have returned to
normal. It's a bit eerie in one sense, but also immensely heartening to see
that the terrorist had so little wide-reaching effect on the people and that
fact that life goes on and they will not let this slow them down.

I hope the ones you were concerned about come up on freq soon. If you're
really concerned and think they might have been involved you can call the
Scotland Yard casualty hotline at 011-44-870-156-6344 and they might be able
to tell you something. Latest news is on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/4666679.stm

Shawn



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:9_%ze.140582$x96.68315@attbi_s72...
I'm a bit surprised that no one has brought up the horrible terrorist
attacks on London.

I figured that it wasn't an aviation event, so it really isn't on-topic
for
these rec.aviation groups.

Well, true enough, except when you consider the number of British pilots
on this group -- all of whom have fallen strangely silent.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they're okay...and that they've got
more important things to do right now than surf the aviation newsgroups.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"