bluemonday Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 BA plane lands short - no serious injuries believed. Boeing 777 BA38 from Beijing Full emergency response chew on that newsbot........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 But newsbot only reports on 'local' news items. You suck at pwning newsbot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Grrrrr foiled! Seriously though, looks like a lucky escape. Bound to be some fairly major delays as a consequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 You said it was a 707 to start with. Make your mind up dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Two versions of model from the BBC and now they're not saying what it is. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...don/7194086.stm and now the BBC have changed the flight number to BAO38 on the box. AT will be relieved that Mister Broons plane was not involved but has been delayed Emergency Number 0800 389 4193 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxie Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Got this from our travel agent Heathrow airport was temporarily closed as a result of a British Airways flight from Beijing being unable to lower its under carriage. There was an emergency landing and at present there are no reported injuries. The airport was evacuated and at present one of the two runways is closed. Clearly travellers should be prepared for lengthy delays and disruption at Heathrow throughout the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxie Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Notification from British Airways that the remainder of the domestic and the European programme at Heathrow will today be cancelled. Long haul flights will still operate with delays due to the single runway being in operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monasqueen Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 From Sky News: "The Prime Minister's flight to China was among those stuck on the runway after the drama involving BA flight 38 from Beijing to London...... ....Sky's Political Editor Adam Boulton, who is on the PM's flight, said Mr Brown remained calm. "The PM joked: 'Well you have got your story already then'."..... ...Mr Brown's flight has now taken off safely." Well, that's got him out of the way for a bit. Bet the aeroplane driver will be grounded for a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 that's one of the new short landing models, came to a halt very quickly ! glad all safe though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girl89 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 The worker also said the pilot had told him all the electronics had also failed. "He said he had no warning - it just went," the worker added. Scary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Was it a slow news day today? Channel 4 News have devoted the first 10 minutes to this trivial story and are still blathering on about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spock Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/busi...g+plane/1356747 Details of Crash Landing Plane. Last Modified: 18 Jan 2008 By: Sue Turton Captain Burkill, applauded for avoiding loss of life during yesterday's crash, says it was his senior flight officer who landed the plane. who was at the controls when it landed. Peter Burkill said his co-pilot John Coward had done "a most remarkable job" crash landing the plane at Heathrow yesterday. Double engine failure is the initial findings of the investigation into the crash landing of the Boeing 777 plane. It suggests that both engines failed to respond about two miles from the airport. The plane had been functioning normally until it was just 600 feet above the ground. Double engine failure is extremelly rare indeed. It's simply not supposed to happen. But yesterday it happened over London. Today's initial report into the crashlanding concludes that the BA flight from Beijing got into difficulties 600 feet in the air, two miles from the end of the south runway - over a residential area of West London, north of Staines Road in Hounslow. It says both engines failed to respond when the pilot applied the throttle. So , calling aviation experts to the Forum, what about the similarity with Air France Flight 296 which was a chartered flight of a newly-delivered fly-by-wire Airbus A320 operated by Air France. On June 26, 1988, as part of an air show it was scheduled to fly over Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport (ICAO code LFGB) at a low speed with landing gear down at an altitude of 100 feet, but instead slowly descended to 30 feet before crashing into the tops of trees beyond the runway. Captain Asseline reported that the engines didn't respond to his throttle input as he attempted to increase power. Fly by wire computer technology and programming does not yet meet all operational situations. ire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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