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Incident at LHR

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  • 01-17-2008 1:13 PM In reply to

    BA Boeing 777 from Bejing falls short of runway at Heathrow

    News on the BBC News 24 reports of an incident at Heathrow airport. A BA 777 has fallen short of the runway although there seems to be little other news at the moment...more to follow!!!

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  • 01-17-2008 1:14 PM

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    Incident at LHR

    Live pics on BBC show the 777 landed on the grass near Hatton Cross and it currently is sitting on its belly on the piano keys of 27L. Everyone evacuated, minor casualties

     

  • 01-17-2008 1:33 PM In reply to

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     Thankfully no significant injuries, it seems to have gone some distance on the mud. It is remarkable they stopped so soon. Does anybody know if anyone was there?

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  • 01-17-2008 1:36 PM In reply to

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    BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson is on the delayed aircraft that Gordon Brown is on. He is currently reporting on the phone, blatantly breaking rules there Smile

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  • 01-17-2008 2:09 PM In reply to

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    An eye witness on the aircraft said that nobody was told within the aircraft of any troubles, he said they just landed heavily and then the oxygen masks started to come down!

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  • 01-17-2008 2:31 PM In reply to

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    Aircraft involved reported to be G-YMMM. Early eye-witnesses reported a very non-standard approach with a very late turn to line up on the runway.

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  • 01-17-2008 2:40 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    Latest pics

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  • 01-17-2008 2:43 PM In reply to

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  • 01-17-2008 2:48 PM In reply to

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    Flight's are now being diverted to Luton.  Not really sure how they will cope with the traffic.

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  • 01-17-2008 3:04 PM In reply to

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    BA confirmed it was G-YMMM
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  • 01-17-2008 3:07 PM In reply to

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    Delivered new to  BA May 2001

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  • 01-17-2008 3:08 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    My guess would be he lost all engine power....

     

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  • 01-17-2008 3:12 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    Video of the aftermath can be found at the Aviation Safety Network

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  • 01-17-2008 3:53 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    Pilot said he lost all engine power and avionics and had to glide the 777 in..i am confident that it's a rite-off

     

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  • 01-17-2008 7:58 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    Listening to all the news reports it looks like I was rite in saying it was engine power failure....I am surprised though, The complete loss of power and electrics is even more interesting when you consider this aircraft was ETOPS fitted...I recall an incident in the US when a 777 had complete power failure due to a fire in the electrics...I wonder if Boeing will ground all 777s??We must give a big thumbs up to all the crew and thank them for a great job in getting everyone safe..Well done guys

     

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  • 01-17-2008 9:11 PM In reply to

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    Just seen some footage on BBC's 9:00 news of the 777 landing, taken by someone outside the Airport. The landing attitude of the aircraft seemed to be increasing at a higher angle than normal so the pilot's did an extraordinary job in getting this jet onto the Airport itself.

    Huge well done, excellent airmanship.

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  • 01-17-2008 9:25 PM In reply to

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    Hi guys, as someone who did a bit of work a few years ago on BA's 777 (no ,not this one), does any one know if the ram air turbine deployed? Am sure that it auto deploys on loss of power. Although may have been to late to do much good. 

  • 01-17-2008 10:34 PM In reply to

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    No idea K....but our expert reported this on Flightglobal, this tends to say total power loss and the pilot started procedures to avoid drag..although doing some research myself I am sure the APU starts automatically when the aircraft looses power from both engines, can anyone confirm this??

    See our safety experts(David Learmounts) video on the accident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJiA2Nt6ljU

    The crew managed to control the descent to a touchdown with wings level, on grass just over the perimeter fence at Heathrow, on the 27L extended centreline. The gear was down, flaps were set at about 20°, and the indications are that the crew had started the auxiliary power unit.

    On touchdown the 777's gear dug into the soft ground and separated. The aircraft came to rest at the threshold of runway 27L having made a short ground run of about 350m (1,150ft), probably because at touchdown the aircraft was close to its stalling speed.

    When the main gear separated it caused considerable damage to the engines and the wings near the wing-root trailing edge.

    The weather at Heathrow at the time was wind from 220° at 16kt (30km/h), broken cloud at 1,400ft (426m) and 2,000ft, temperature 11°C, dew point 9°C, with a warning that the wind might vary temporarily to 240° at 20kt, gusting to 32kt. The visibility was greater than 10km (6.2 miles).

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  • 01-17-2008 11:43 PM In reply to

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    Nice idea to use YouTube, but it didn't work for me earlier - maybe too much demand.

    What's the stall speed of that aircraft ?

  • 01-18-2008 8:55 AM In reply to

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    Hi Daytona...i think the stall speed for the 777 is around 150 knots (172 mph)

    Try this link for the video report

    http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/01/17/220900/video.html 

     

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  • 01-18-2008 9:25 AM In reply to

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    Here is a Google maps picture of the Heathrow area where the incident happened

     
     

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  • 01-18-2008 10:22 AM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    A very shot clip of the aircraft on final has appeared: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwQ4EHQY8Y 

  • 01-18-2008 1:06 PM In reply to

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    Re: Incident at LHR

    More detailed photos here credits http://www.heathrowpictures.com/pictures/pictures.html

     I would have thought this image rules out any birdstrike

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  • 01-18-2008 1:31 PM In reply to

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