Originally Posted by
LTNman
Pointing nose out is a BEA Trident. I thought they had autoland abilities.
At a guess either the autoland was inop or one of the crew wasn't currently trained for autoland. Having just typed this, a quick look in the anorak log has 15 Tridents diverted in total so maybe there was another reason. I don't know the landing capabilities of the autoland equipped Tridents but I doubt it was better than the current ILS Cat 3A limit of 200m RVR touchdown, so perhaps the LHR vis was below that.