747 w/gear down over central London
Hi,
I'm new to this forum (a friend told me about it) and I'm hoping you guyts can help me prove to myself that I'm not going completely crazy.
I was walking down High Holborn in Central London today at around 1pm and happened to look up - I saw a 747 flying in the direction of Heathrow on what looked like an approach heading, nothing too unusual about that so far.
What was rather strange was that the plane had its gear down !
Now I've lived in London for a lot of years and that was at least seven miles too soon for a 747 on Heathrow approach to be lowering undercarriage.
I spoke to a friend of mine who is a pilot and he suggested that someone here might have a clue what was going on, anyone got any ideas ?