plane crash at heathrow

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:35 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... =1&bbcws=1

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:30 am

the were lucky looking at the pictures on sky news of the damage - only 3 minor injuries.

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:32 am

latest new 12 minor injury

littlemissgiggle · Post by **littlemissgiggle** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:36 am

I have just been watching it and very lucky.

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:36 am

very very lucky

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:42 am

saw this miday...

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:44 am

update 17 minor injuries.

still a very lucky landing.

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:58 pm

That really is amazing, given that the plane didn't reach even the runway before it came to a halt. It hit the ground 100 feet inside the perimeter fence? That's a quarter of a second's travel at landing speed, that's how close they got to a complete loss.

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:03 pm

witnesses are saying it just dropped onto the ground and skidded, on teh pictures you can see a huge gauge for a long run in the grass, the wheels torn off on the grass, really awful.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:16 pm

Truly miraculous for the people in the plane, and those in the flight path. Also kudos to the flight crew, they did an excellent job in getting the plane down with no one killed. It will be very interesting to see why the engines failed, the Boeing 777 has a very good safety record, so its an unusual one. I did hear a theory that it might be something as simple as a large flock of birds destroying the 2 engines as it was landing, and that would certainly seem plausible from the early reports of what happened, still time will tell.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:35 am

fuzzy butt;759495 wrote: I was told by my flying instructor that every landing "is a controlled crash" and if you walk away from a crashthen "it's considered a uncontrolled landing".

Same diff

Oh don't say things like that.