Plane Landed short at Heathrow

[Muncher]

From the brief glances of the helicopter footage it looked like it came in about 200yards at least short. Sounds more like a crash rather than a botched landing!

[blueyes]

Good news: The incident happened as Prime Minister Gordon Brown was due to leave Heathrow for China and India. His flight was delayed because of the incident.

Bad news: His jet was not directly involved.

[kiwisr]

Olf said:

According to the BBC

"Six engines were at the scene of the incident."

Do you think they mean Injuns?

I though the 777 was only a twin engine plane?

[Andy Zarse]

Crikey, that's terrible. I can only hope my ex-wife was on board.

[Olf]

GolfGT_Girl said:

I dont need to view bbc news just need to read pheads!

You need to sell your BA shares NOW.

[RDE]

pprune.org is screwed at the moment. I guess the journalists have to get their information from somewhere.

[BoRED S2upid]

So something has happened at Heathrow then. How much excitment can the P&P take? Threads popping up all over the place.

[Adenauer]

Could have been a lot worse looking at the pictures of the plane mind you, that must have been quite a "bump".

[TIGA84]

Andy Zarse said:

Crikey, that's terrible. I can only hope my ex-wife was on board.

[Olf]

kiwisr said:

Olf said:

According to the BBC

"Six engines were at the scene of the incident."

Do you think they mean Injuns?

I though the 777 was only a twin engine plane?

Thats the problem then. Inexperienced pilot loses control of overpowered plane.

Edited by Olf on Thursday 17th January 13:28

[juice]

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

[Olf]

juice said:

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

It was only a matter of seconds before that had to happen.

[kiwisr]

juice said:

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

Just listening on my airband radio - there was a scuffle in the cockpit.

[G3 GRM]

juice said:

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

Was only a matter of time!

[Silverbullet767]

He was trying to shorten the flight, to lower CO2 emissions.

[TIGA84]

kiwisr said:

juice said:

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

Just listening on my airband radio - there was a scuffle in the cockpit.

eh?

[Olf]

kiwisr said:

juice said:

Oh FFS - Sky news just mentioned "Terrorism"

Just listening on my airband radio - there was a scuffle in the cockpit.

They shouldn't be playing musical instruments and flying. Thats ridiculous.

[SpencerO]

More quality reportage from the BBC

"...Eyewitness John Rowland said: "The plane's wheels collapsed, doors were flown open.

"On its approach it took the runway too low, just missing the roof of my cab.

"It crashed into the runway, debris was flying everywhere, there was an enormous bang and it skidded sideways." ..."


What? Not onto a playground of screaming children, having clipped a hospital on the way down? Pillocks..

[glazbagun]

I hate the news when stuff like this happens. Anything that can be summed up in a sentence (like most accidents/disasters), and 24HR news channels will spend hours repeating the same sentence, with the dumbest commentary possible.

I'm so glad I dont work at LHR, though. Thats a whole lot of delayed passengers.

[Olf]

BA jet nearly kills taxi driver. Must try harder.