A professional job bringing a 747 back to earth safely with a missing MLG. Dumping and rebalancing remaining fuel. The crew deserve much praise for that.
But can we please stop with the praise for the landing? The videos show little flare and a big bounce. Please stop telling us that was intended by the PF! Horseradish! Even with 3/4 elevator control a normal landing should have been a priority with dodgy gear.
And I also agree that we must have better places to send aeroplanes which need to perform an emergency landing? LGW?! I am sure it suits Virgin to go there, but are there better options? If not, in a country where the Government is doing its best to ensure LHR and LGW are run at max capacity, we need to create them.