Originally Posted by
groundagent
LCY is a short runway with steep approach in central London. Do you remember the BA 146 (or RJ, I can't remember) which burst main gear tyres on landing? That was in the dry and due to the breaking required, not sure of specifics, but this was more than normal I assume, tyres burst.
Imagine the same situation with an icy runway.
Sorry, the airport was closed in the terminal building, but the runway was not. As I left the terminal at around 1900 there was a jet departure from 09 in the dark, and a couple of minutes later a VLM F50 landed, and pulled up very nicely at the normal point. So the runway was serviceable at that time, but something else was not.
I couldn't quite explain the jet departure as I had just left the terminal where everything had long been shown as cancelled. Biz Jet ? Something positioning out empty ? Late go-around ?