Crash landing at Heathrow

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Originally Posted by Biggles

"Aviation expert Kieran Daly, from Flight International magazine, said not a single Boeing 777 had been lost in a crash since the aircraft was launched in 1995."

Now that is mighty impressive.

Yea, when the incident was still "breaking news", my first question was "what airplane?"
Then it came out it was a 777 and I scratched my head for a while after drawing a blank on trying to think of previous incidents involving that. Indeed a very good record it has.

Yea, I'd say it looks like a total loss to me. But whatever happened, it sure handled that landing well. That does look like a dangerously high AoA in the video above, too. I guess it's just a lucky model number!

Cheers to the pilot. So far it looks like he'll be the hero of the day.