british airways crash LHR
BBC has a witness (engineer) who told them that the pilot said he had to glide it in (engine failure) so what I think happened is the engines failed. Came in to land at LHR but was getting low before the runway (maybe a bit of windshear) so the pilot pulled up to try and gain a bit of altitude but lost a lot of airspeed (witness reports say that the plane came in very slow) but with loss of speed and the nose up the plane stalled nose came down (witness reports say it had a swing action with the nose going up then coming down) with it stalling it fell out of the air and hard on to the ground before the runway causing a very hard landing which would have resulted in the landing gear collapsing.
let me know what you think Matthew Coote age 16 want to be a pilot
Last edited by cootem; 17th Jan 2008 at 20:00.