Crash landing at Heathrow

[Tchocky]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7194086.stm





A handful of slight injuries, thankfully.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

boeing engineering at its finest !!!

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

boeing engineering at its finest !!!

You meen the part where the plane lost all its power and electronics?:hmm:

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

You meen the part where the plane lost all its power and electronics?:hmm:

I'm sure that Boeing will look at it's fleet after this...but personally, I think it is the engineering that kept everyone alive.

Sometimes you have to look at the good of a situation...especially when it entails human lives.

[Konovalov]

Today is a great day to be alive.

I manage operations of a small logistics freight forwarder in Hounslow only a couple of minutes away from where this happened. Indeed the aircraft that use this runway for landings fly almost directly over our office.

What a strange day. First we had a power cut at our office premises around 10:30am this morning and then at lunchtime one of Boeings 777's decides to park itself almost on the A30.

My only gripe is that I didn't take my DSLR to work as on sunny days I take some lunchbreaks opposite Hatton Cross station in a small patch of parkland with other keen aircraft spotters and photographers watching commercial aircraft come into land on that exact runway. I would have got some great shots. I'll have to wait now till Friday morning though from what I've seen it's probably safe to assume that the BA 777 will still be sitting there tomorrow morning. If I get some shots tomorrow I will post them here.

Thank god for that BA pilot. I'm telling you know that if the pilot didn't get that 777 over the airport perimeter fence then everybody on board that aircraft would be dead along with dozens if not hundeds of people driving along the A30 and the businesses that are in the area. This would have been a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

As I said earlier, today is a good day to be alive.

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by Konovalov

Today is a great day to be alive.

I manage operations of a small logistics freight forwarder in Hounslow only a couple of minutes away from where this happened. Indeed the aircraft that use this runway for landings fly almost directly over our office.

What a strange day. First we had a power cut at our office premises around 10:30am this morning and then at lunchtime one of Boeings 777's decides to park itself almost on the A30.

My only gripe is that I didn't take my DSLR to work as on sunny days I take some lunchbreaks opposite Hatton Cross station in a small patch of parkland with other keen aircraft spotters and photographers watching commercial aircraft come into land on that exact runway. I would have got some great shots. I'll have to wait now till Friday morning though from what I've seen it's probably safe to assume that the BA 777 will still be sitting there tomorrow morning. If I get some shots tomorrow I will post them here.

Thank god for that BA pilot. I'm telling you know that if the pilot didn't get that 777 over the airport perimeter fence then everybody on board that aircraft would be dead along with dozens if not hundeds of people driving along the A30 and the businesses that are in the area. This would have been a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

As I said earlier, today is a good day to be alive.

Was the A30 getting ready to take off? I haven't found any photos that show how close to the road it actually was.

[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.

[Linton]

[bookworm_020]

The aircarft looks a write off, but at least every survived! I bet the pilot woun't be buying beers for awhile!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

The aircarft looks a write off, but at least every survived! I bet the pilot woun't be buying beers for awhile!

Your not kidding!!

[Konovalov]

I'm going to take a stab at it and guess that wind shear struck the 777 in the final moments of it's approach. At lunchtime outside our office the weather was highly changeable in that the wind was at times gusting very strongly before suddenly dropping down in intensity to almost total calm. We also had from no where a sudden burst of rain which was almost like hail. In short the weather was very unsettled. I'm guessing from this that we were on the edge of a weather front around the Heathrow and Hounslow areas between 11am to around 3pm when the weather was extremely unsettled. There are also a couple of very large aircraft maintenance hangers within close proximity to the runway approach and I wonder if this in some way along with the weather conditions contributed to the crash. So I'm giving Boeing and the 777 the benefit of the doubt right now. The next 48 hours should prove interesting with regards to the accident investigation prelim report. :hmm:

[CCIP]

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.