British Airways Attempts 777 Soft Field Landing

[Kharma Police]

British Pilots everywhere are now cowering in the corner wondering what went so terribly wrong... Maybe one too many glasses of wine with dinner? Sad day when a great airplane like that has to go to the scrap yard. Atleast there were no deaths and very few injuries! Bloody ELLLL!!uke:

I think the French are the ones who drink wine during flight.

 

[A-V-8]

On the news they were saying that the pilot added power and got none. That was on CNN. This will be a very intresting investigation.

 

[Prog 2/2]

On the video it looks like the approach lights are displaced hundreds of meters from the end of the runway. May have just been a visual approach gone bad.. anyone who's landed on this runway have any input?

You don't, as a rule, do visual approaches to LHR. At least not like we are used to here. In fact, visual approaches as we know them are pretty much an alien concept in JAR land.

Holding at Heathrow is a normal event at almost any time. As someone mentioned, BA's fuel policy has been the subject of discussion a few times on pprune.

Yet I find it hard to believe that a BA crew tooled around long enough to just run out of gas. Long haul flights are made with one eye on the fuel gauges and a healthy skepticism regarding hold times and approach delays at destination.

FWIW

 

[TNHillbilly]

wow, its amazing that there was that much clearway before the threshold, this could have been much worse I think.

 

[epic!]

The BBC quoted the pilot of the Boeing 777 as saying that he had lost all power and the avionics and was forced to glide the plane in to land.

http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=01/17/2008&item=12

 

[epic!]

::double post::
http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=01/17/2008&item=12

 

[Taildraggaah]

That's the rumor going around now.

BA seems to have an issue with fuel starvation...long legs combined with company policies?

That would be fuel exhaustion not starvation

 

[CAPTAINDEEZ]

First 777 crash, wow!!

I bet the one over age 60 was flying

 

[DX Rick]

That would be fuel exhaustion not starvation

Eitherway, sounds like there was too much air in the tanks.

 

[BLing]

In fact, visual approaches as we know them are pretty much an alien concept in JAR land.

On my last contract I flying a French registered CRJ under a JAR validation in Africa. When us Americans showed up we were always asking for visuals. At first it was like pulling teeth, but after a while we didnt have to ask anymore. They figured out how we like to do it and would clear us without even asking!

As for the BA 777, it will be interesting to see what they find out...

 

[TheDude280]

Who knows... the investigation should be very interesting...but the aircraft shedding elec systems and then no power being available, and with no fire evidence on the scene, fuel exhaustion does come to mind.

 

[relief tube]

I bet the one over age 60 was flying

yeah, anyone younger than 60 surely could have put it down on the actual runway.

 

[Taildraggaah]

Eitherway, sounds like there was too much air in the tanks.

I know I just was keeping us honest about the terms...

 

[Erlanger]

On the news they were saying that the pilot added power and got none. That was on CNN. This will be a very intresting investigation.

There was no fire. Wonder if they ran it out of fuel. If it was, they must of known of their fuel situation and I wonder if they figured they could make it home. If it was that would suck; they were so close.

 

[viper548]

I bet the one over age 60 was flying

One article I saw said the Captain was 43