BA crash landing at Heathrow

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<6f03ce02-83e6-4ec8-b9cc-39b21050f38f@y5g2000hsf.************.com>, at
00:43:27 on Sun, 27 Jan 2008, jamessan@hotmail.co.uk remarked:
>Just curious does anyone know what happened to the flight coming in to
>land immediately behind this one. Did they have to abort their
>landing or where they too late and land anyway.

They'd have to abort for all kinds of reasons, not least of which would
be allowing free access to the wreck site by the emergency services.

Widening the question slightly, were any inbound aircraft diverted, or
did they stack up and cope on the other runway (having cancelled all
takeoffs I suppose).
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Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message
> <6f03ce02-83e6-4ec8-b9cc-39b21050f38f@y5g2000hsf.************.com>, at
> 00:43:27 on Sun, 27 Jan 2008, jamessan@hotmail.co.uk remarked:
>>Just curious does anyone know what happened to the flight coming in to
>>land immediately behind this one. Did they have to abort their
>>landing or where they too late and land anyway.
>
> They'd have to abort for all kinds of reasons, not least of which would be
> allowing free access to the wreck site by the emergency services.
>
> Widening the question slightly, were any inbound aircraft diverted, or did
> they stack up and cope on the other runway (having cancelled all takeoffs
> I suppose).

Some were diverted. Both runways were closed for a while. This was because
all the emergency vehicles were committed to the crashed 777, so there was
no emergency cover left to be able to operate the other runway.

In message <6030fdF1labpdU1@mid.individual.net>, at 09:16:56 on Sun, 27
Jan 2008, Graculus <ReplaceWithMyMoniker@hotmail.co.uk> remarked:
>> Widening the question slightly, were any inbound aircraft diverted,
>>or did they stack up and cope on the other runway (having cancelled
>>all takeoffs I suppose).
>
>Some were diverted. Both runways were closed for a while. This was
>because all the emergency vehicles were committed to the crashed 777,
>so there was no emergency cover left to be able to operate the other
>runway.

As yes, I do remember reading that now you mention it.
--
Roland Perry