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Airliner crashes at heathrow
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm
BBC News 24 and Sky news are also confirming that the airliner in question missed the traffic at the perimeter fence, by around only 20 feet.
BBC News wrote:A passenger plane has crash-landed short of a runway at Heathrow Airport after losing its rear undercarriage.
All 136 passengers and 16 crew escaped from the British Airways flight BA038 from Beijing. 13 people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries.
An airport worker told the BBC the pilot on the Boeing 777 had said he had lost all power, and had been forced to glide the plane into land.
All BA short-haul flights from Heathrow have been cancelled and others delayed.
BBC News 24 and Sky news are also confirming that the airliner in question missed the traffic at the perimeter fence, by around only 20 feet.
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But no serious injuries.
Amazing that nothing worse happened. Great job by the staff!
Hotesses making too may cheese toasties ?
Well it does seem a scary fact to begin with, then you have a plane that could be out of control!
Well done to the pilot, he deserves a big drink after getting that plane in safely. It could so easily have been a repeat of the air crash at East Midlands Airport that claimed the lives of a fair few people.
Goes to show that the fifth runway should not be built at Heathrow though. It isn't safe. Next time that plane could come down in the middle of Harlow.
And it's still a hell of a lot safer than any other form of transport.
Could have been sooo much worse. :thumb:
Im pretty sure 7/7 happened a week before the last time i went to a london meet.
no, this thing was fucking lucky...i just hope it wasn't human error
Did they think Osama had moved the runway or what?
Any particular reason that a new runway would be safer anywhere else? Or were you thinking the middle of nowhere?
:chin:
He should get a big fat pay check from BA too.
The flight paths into Heathrow tend to fly right across the centre of London. Building an extra runway will move the perimeter of the airport even closer to houses which are already there.
The middle of nowhere would be much better for another runway. Ideally there'd be no runway at all because air travel is morally bankrupt, but there you go.
Is that bad :chin:?
I think perhaps they were referring to the alledged failure of electronic systems
Presumably all travel except walking is morally bankrupt then?
Nice to know big companies maintain planes well, isn't it?
The media seems to love this kind of stuff. They were orgasming for a week when an aircraft made two missed approaches here and ended up diverting to it's alternative airport.
Plus they have a knack at interviewing passengers that most have no clue about flying and sprout all sorts of bullshit. However, the BBC seems to avoid that. Perhaps it changes things when it could actually have been much worse. Or that Icelanders are such primadonnas. hmmm.
they aren't gonna broadcast someone saying "well thousands of planes land safely every day, i was just unlucky. it's not gonna put me off flying". if they are pushing an opposing angle.
Sensationalise everything. Fucking hell, a plane had to do an emergency landing OMFGZWTFROFLBBQLOLHAX.
Wow. And loads of people die every day in RTA's. One plane doesn't have any deaths. OMGZZZ PLAEN CRASHES.
Massive Sigh.
:yes:
One time a plane 'overshot' the runway at Leeds Bradford (read: it landed on the runway, it just stopped a few metres after it should have) and I thought the Look North team were going to explode.
Subdued, it was bloody mental!