Slow & Low Antonov An-12 Shakes Wrexham

A lowish fly past by a large transporter plane ‘shook’ peoples rooms and woke people from their sleep late last night.

Just before midnight the russian built four-engined turboprop transport aircraft zoomed over the area at a relatively slow 200mph ‘shaking the bones’ of people below.

It has been described as ‘genuinely awful’, ‘sounding like a plane in trouble’, and someone else fearful a plane was crashing into their house.

The above grab from FlightRadar24.com shows the route taken by the plane, which started at around 19,000 feet above the town.

@wrexham the loudest helicopter?/plane?/spaceship??? just went over southsea n sounded not right? anyone else hear it? 😅

— ☾sophhh ☾ (@sxphiegriffiths) February 1, 2016

The aircraft is operated by Ukraine Air Alliance (UAA), and appears to have been flying out from Prestwick, to a destination as of yet unknown.