Thursday Jan 17, 2008
Thursday Jan 17, 2008
Ouch! Talk about hard landings!
Not a good day for my favourite airline, my 2nd favourite aircraft, nor one of my favourite airports.
BBC News reports on the incident at Heathrow where a British Airways Boeing 777, flight 038 coming in from Beijing, crash landed short of runway 27L. Amazingly (thank goodness!) only minor injuries resulted to some passengers. The aircraft, however, did not fare as well.
With over 12 years of excellent service, I believe this is the first real blemish for the "Triple 7". But certainly not one that would scare me off! It's still my favourite passenger aircraft, after it's bigger older brother, the Boeing 747-400.
I always said: 4 engines good, 2 engines bad. Although it sounds horribly like some system managed to cause both engines to shut down so I suppose it could have shut four down if they had had theum Either way I'm glad I'm not flying on a 777 into Heathrow tomorrow. I just have to be on an Airbus A319 with, err, two engines... I should not have read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320#Accidents_and_Incidents
Posted by Chris Gerhard on January 17, 2008 at 06:00 PM EST #