British Airways Attempts 777 Soft Field Landing

[ms6073]

Remind what the definition of a good landing is.

A good landing is:

• one where you can still open the doors
• one that you can swim back to the dock from
• one that when you fill out your log books you have a coffee in your hand not an IV in your arm
• A great landing is one in which you can use the airplane again

 

[AngelKing]

They just came in from Southeast Asia. Maybe there was no fuel on board...?

That's what I think.


AK

 

[rickair7777]

They just came in from Southeast Asia. Maybe there was no fuel on board...?

That's the rumor going around now.

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

 

[Tatoosh65]

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?

 

[Tomct]

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:

 

[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