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BA flight lands short of runway
EHM-2029 Sotiris:
Developing story - Hot off the press
It looks like a BA flight touched down a touch too early.
No victims reported though, always a good one that!
Quote from the site:
Passengers have been led to safety after a passenger jet landed short of the runway at Heathrow Airport.
The plane was British Airways flight BA38 from Beijing to London.
Six ambulances were sent to the scene and three people are being reported for minor injuries. Emergency services remain at the scene.
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm
EHM-0654 Murray:
A B777, BA and the BAA are praising the crew for the excellent job they did getting the plane down safely and getting it evacuated. The BBC page has (to my mind) conflicting reasons given for the short landing, just have to wait for the CAA crash report.
And for those of us living in the southern flightpath, it's really obvious there's been a problem from the huge spacing they're putting on inbound flights now.
EHM-1821 Javier:
My friend alerted me of the news after i got home last night, I thought the landing gear went through the wing, report says it broke off, possibly excess -VS?
Great job by the pilots to safely land the aircraft with everyone surviving! I hope the cause is found soon and more hopefully that its not something wrong with the aircraft itself, with so many 777 operators, we won't want this to happen again...
EHM-1749 Hector:
No power, no avionics on final. No fire after the crashlanding. Fuel Starvation?
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Not a fuel problem apparently - they already mentioned that there was plenty of fuel in the tanks in the news reports...
There's always lots of speculation when these things happen, the only thing to do is wait for the investigation report. ;)
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