Emergency Landing at Heathrow

In message
<532fa71b-5412-48eb-b77d-eddf4d0640c6@s13g2000prd..com>,
Neill <wormwood001@m> writes

>Airport closed after 777 makes emergency landing short of the runway.

Only the south runway is closed: the north runway is still in use
(although there will doubtless be long delays and some diversions).
--
Paul Terry

Mizter T wrote:
>
> I note that one eyewitness quoted in the BBC story was a "John
> Rowland", who sounds like he's a cabbie (though this isn't totally
> clear)...

It wasn't me.

On Jan 17, 2:36 pm, Mizter T <mizte...@> wrote:
>

>
> Just to clarify - David Learmont from the aviation news magazine
> Flight International was just speaking on BBC News 24 and was
> suggesting that this incident didn't appear to be an "Emergency
> Landing" per se - i.e. it was not pre-planned as an emergency landing
> procedure and the airport and indeed passengers were not informed
> beforehand. Instead he was suggesting that it looked like a sudden
> problem that became apparent very late in the approach to land, so I
> guess that would make it a "crash landing".

BBC coverage is now describing it as a "crash" rather than "emergency"
landing. It would appear that whatever happened occured very late in
the approach. The other point being made is that the distruption to
Heathrow could last for some days if they cannot start using the
runway for takeoffs. The aircraft could also be difficult to remove as
the undercarriage has sheared off.

Neill

In message
<aec9b67b-19d3-4701-bbc3-864b45641fc2@t1g2000pra..com>, at
06:36:26 on Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mizter T <mizter.t@> remarked:
>BBC reporting 136 passengers were on board

That's not very many for a 777.
--
Roland Perry

In message
<5badc5bc-d278-41a5-9aba-fcb79a0087b2@e4g2000hsg..com>, at
07:32:44 on Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mizter T <mizter.t@> remarked:
>That said all BA short haul flights from Heathrow have been cancelled,

oops, I have a colleague who was due to fly into LHR on a BA short-haul
this evening (to connect to a long haul). I guess he's cooling his heels
somewhere now :(
--
Roland Perry

On Jan 17, 7:58 pm, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <aec9b67b-19d3-4701-bbc3-864b45641...@t1g2000pra..com>, at
> 06:36:26 on Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mizter T <mizte...@> remarked:
>
> >BBC reporting 136 passengers were on board
>
> That's not very many for a 777.
> --
> Roland Perry

Carbon footprint etc. etc.

There's a perfectly good train service from central Beijing to central
London that they could use, change at Moscow, Berlin and Brussels.