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

latest new 12 minor injury

I have just been watching it and very lucky.

very very lucky

saw this miday...

update 17 minor injuries.

still a very lucky landing.

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.

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.

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.

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.