BA B777 Incident @ Heathrow (merged)

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As usual there is so much speculation when the facts are still to come in.

Typically, the ‘experts’ are deriding the PPLs etc for lack of knowledge yet go on themselves to speculate that the flight crew did a brilliant job to enable people to walk away (relatively) unharmed.

How is that in itself not speculation? Do we know it was not crew error? (I seriously doubt it was, but none of us know).

As for the ‘heroics’ of the flight crew, if (speculation now it is as it seems and was a major loss of power (however that was brought about) at a very late stage of the approach, what exactly dud the crew do that was heroic? It seems (more speculation, based on lack of notice to ATC and to the Cabin Crew) that this was a last minute event, in which case the A/C would have been stable beforehand. What exactly, apart from being very frightened, could the flight crew have done with a dead stick and only seconds to touch down?

Everyone walked away, which could have been fortune more than skill; huge kudos to the Cabin Crew who it seems were as much in the dark as the passengers and ATC, yet managed to very quickly and safely evacuate the aircraft. Considering that they seem to have had no warning until the aircraft ploughed in, they did exceptionally well.