Excellent team, both in the flight deck and in the cabin.
Gliding down a 767, without both engines from 2 miles away, it is not as easy as it sounds. Obviously the weather helped, the wet grass and soft mud helped, the visibility helped, the type of aircraft helped, but it could have all gone terribly wrong. Just a tiny mistake could have meant disaster.
Same type of incident on 27-right could have had totally different results as well, with the same crew, but we cannot ignore the objective fact that the two men in uniform at the front did an incredible job, they performed the best possible landing for the given conditions. They deserve a huge medal.
We also have to thank the extremely professional BA Cabin Crew who have again demonstrated how essential good training and skills become in case of a real emergency.
This should put a bit more into prospective the attitude of those moody passengers who often enjoy to treat Cabin Crew with disrespect, especially those in the Premium Cabins.
Yesterday they were all saved, also by the Cabin Crew, and this was the team's aim whatever their behaviour had been on board during the previous 12 hours.
This is a lesson for all.
Somebody here has even criticised the pilots for not advising the Cabin Crew of the impending crash-landing, but we all know well that in those precious seconds the main priority was to bring the machine down in the best possible way. Any distraction would have proven fatal.
Well done to all BA crew, you have demonstrated again that "serious training" is essential when you have to effectively deal with emergencies. Cabin Crew is essential too.
But lets' remind to all involved that in all fields, in all industries, we should never become too slave of our own procedures, e.g. if the pilots would have wasted time on "formal procedures" (e.g. "announcements") therefore under-estimating the real danger, everybody would have possibly died.
Looking back they have done a perfect job.
: a perfect landing of a 767 without both engines, on the grass.
Why both engines failed?..think: what is the only bit they have in common?...
