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.

[lesrae]

Originally Posted by sonar732

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

The A30 is a main road that runs alongside the airport

Link to map - the crash was at the east end of the south runway asI understand it.

If that was a systems failure then BZ to the pilot

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by lesrae

The A30 is a main road that runs alongside the airport .

Ooops, I should have made that a bit clearer for the non-locals.

Originally Posted by lesrae

the crash was at the east end of the south runway asI understand it.

Yes, that is correct. There is a good map of the incident on the BBC news website midway down the page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm

Originally Posted by lesrae

[If that was a systems failure then BZ to the pilot

You bet. Give the man more than a medal. I reckon the Chief Exec of BA Willie Walsh should reward the pilot with that old parked Concorde which still sits outside one of the BA maintenance hangers just across from the crash scene.

[STEED]

I checked the Internet and saw my flight was delayed for 15 minutes now I'm here I've been told it's canceled.

And now the punchline -
This is not good enough.


Well my dear, there is a crashed plane on the runway. I'm sorry this has caused your flight to be canceled, by the way, grow up up you arrogant person.

[Oberon]

I personally think that the best part of todays incident was the fact that Gordon Browns plane was one of the ones which got stuck waiting to take off after the landing.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I personally think that the best part of todays incident was the fact that Gordon Browns plane was one of the ones which got stuck waiting to take off after the landing.

Yea but it was the first to be held up meaning he would be first to go on the green light, bloody shame he was not further back.

[CCIP]

How bizzare. Just a week ago I was flight-simming my way around europe on a BA plane and touched down short of the runway in heathrow too and busted up my landing gear just a little. The only difference there was that my plane was a 737, it was the north runway I missed, and I missed it because of ridiculously thick fog that suddenly came up on approach and confused me on what I planned to be a comfy visual landing

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by CCIP

How bizzare. Just a week ago I was flight-simming my way around europe on a BA plane and touched down short of the runway in heathrow too and busted up my landing gear just a little. The only difference there was that my plane was a 737, it was the north runway I missed, and I missed it because of ridiculously thick fog that suddenly came up on approach and confused me on what I planned to be a comfy visual landing

if this happens again, contact the proper authorities. You may be useful.

[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]