mystery flight into stansted today

[night hawk 150]

hi

was working today at stansted on the ryanair contract and saw a flight arrive and was parked on 23R but does not normally come in reg was LZ-HMI

can anyone help in telling me what it was doing here today.

thanks in advance.

picture: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...next_id=623960

[Buster the Bear]

Balkan Holidays have regular charters from Stansted, so if it is not a regular visitor, it might have arrived in place of a regular A320?

[night hawk 150]

Buster

Buster thanks for your reply but no that is not the normal aircraft that i see come into the airport as i have a keen eye for planes of corse you would have never thought that if i had not said anything, i just passed this site by accident.

[Chef]

This one has been in a few times, i have seen it quite a bit.

chef

[chiglet]

That is a photo of a Balkan Holiday TU154M [landing at MANCHESTER]. You've got blinking good eyesight
watp,iktch

[Number Cruncher]

Has that aircraft got its reversers going before touch-down? Is that advisable? Maybe it bounced?

[TheOddOne]

Has that aircraft got its reversers going before touch-down

Probably. Funnily enough, we were talking today about another great Russian a/c the IL62, which used to open 2 buckets (out of the 4) as to came over the hedge here at LGW. Perhaps it's SOP for these a/c.

Cheers,
The Odd One

[Wycombe]

The Trident could use in flight reverse, which apparently could deliver a descent rate of 10000 fpm, if required

[Oshkosh George]

Yes,but all the meals would need to be scraped off the ceiling on landing,and everybody would need an underwear change!

[Capt Wannabe]

Agree with Chef, this aircraft has been at STN quite a bit over the summer.

Maybe you should venture away from Sat 3 more often

[stansted_dan]

Yup the Tu154's are quite common, I caught this one at STN earlier on in the Summer http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto2.php?id=481753 (P.S. jetphotos.net can trigger pop-ups).