Originally Posted by
AeroAmigo
Interestingly the aircraft involved G-OATW was previously registered as G-GBNI, painted in full UK government colours, as was G-XATW when it operated a similar role. To anyone in the know, why were these aircraft procured for that role and then immediately removed from it? I know G-GBNI was used on quite a few state visits. Sorry to sidetrack from the original post but this incident seemingly could quite easily have occurred with the UK prime minister on this exact air frame, which would have made a few headlines i’m sure.
Has nobody read the story? The plane was being used for a movie, commercial ad… they had massive lighting rigs set up next to the fuselage to simulate sunrise while filming. The lights were placed to close and melted sole components. Reports also that during filming the lighting rigs, weighing I presume a lot struck the aircraft several times.