British Airways may have dismantled the Boeing 777-200ER which crashed at London Heathrow in January last year but the aircraft features in the latest update to Google Earth. It's shown de-identified, with its vertical fin detached, just north of the runway 27L threshold - the scene of the accident - with the damage to its wings and engines clearly visible.
This recent survey of Heathrow also shows a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 parked at stand 301, on the southern side of the airport, with boarding bridges docked to its upper and lower decks.
on May 25, 2009 7:30 PM | Reply
Why would they detach the vertical tail? Could Airbus be looking at Boeing composite tail design to benchmark against the A350 baseline?
on May 26, 2009 3:26 PM | Reply
Ouch. Is that a cut aft of the wings, around the fuselage?
on May 26, 2009 3:30 PM | Reply
Just to add:
It's also on Google Maps Street View.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=london+heathrow&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.139534,93.164063&ie=UTF8&ll=51.464803,-0.429851&spn=0.003964,0.011373&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.463827,-0.429688&panoid=Snz6oey6vQQUgwaMALa5MQ&cbp=12,326.61,,2,-2.39