Airliner crash-lands at Heathrow..

[Jamie S]

No doubt my dad will find out more in work tonight, but it seems the plane lost it's rear undercarriage ! Not something that happens every day , and very bad to happen on a 6 year old plane!
Thats boeing for you , Airbus A318,A319 and the A320, FTW...
The crew did well getting every one off safely though.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm

[syl]

As it landed on the grass 100m short of the runway, at BA's home airport, in good visibility, I suspect there's a lot more to it (like loosing power to both engines - it should be able to land comfortably on one).
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[JonB]

No one is really sure what happened yet.

Passengers on plane said there wasn't anything untoward just before impact, so who knows what happened.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

[NSR Mick]

[Jamie S]

Dad will more than lightly find out what the cause was before it's released to the media ect, news like this travels quickly through the aircraft manufacturing industry, so as soon as he knows any thing I will be able to comment on it, I suspect it's going to be a few days at least before they can ever hazard a guess at what caused it though.
Jstokes.

[Walloper]

'JS man on the inside @bcf' !!

We're all so lucky to have you for these things mate..
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[Jamie S]

[nick606]

where does your dad work jay chester ?

[Walloper]

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[Jamie S]

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[Jamie S]

[Walloper]

Here ye go Jamsie....

No need to reply mate.
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[Drew]

Sounds like a total loss of power.

The pilot did a great job of gliding the plane to where he did, with no power (if that was the case)

Passengers just say it felt like a rough landing, not a crash.

[owdamer]

[The Tot]

Knowing that the engine nacelles on the 777 are AS big as a 737 fuselage and the pylons buckled in a manner like that, i'm thinking it must have been one major fuck up.

When i first saw the news at 3 today, i was like - how can one of the most advanced passenger airliners just cock up like that.

Sure, these planes are flying along the glideslope and homing in on the localiser. Since aircraft nowadays can almost land this way using the ILS method, i would assume that the guidance or electronics cocked up somehow or there was a glitch in the software that set the altitude too low on the glide slope for the approach - BUT having said that, it's BA's home field so they'd all be accustomed to the approach. Captain must be pretty senior to fly the 777's so i doubt its pilot error as well.

With the ever increasing presence of digital assistance in aircraft nowadays, do we wonder how safe it actually is? Now that might be a 777 carrying 150 odd, but imagine if it was flying PAX OR even worse, a fully loaded A380!
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[Skudd]

Ony put a tenners worth of fuel in but fuel prices have gone up so the Tenner doesn't go as far...................... about 100m not far enough.
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[Drew]

[NSR Mick]

[Drew]

^^^ heard that before, but just assumed it was a made up funny of those ATC chat log things, didn't know it was for real.