I do believe the chief pilot of the Warwick and Northants Air Ambulance is also a biz jet pilot so some of what has been quoted may well be true!

Small exec crash at Birmingham (UK) Airport this afternoon
 

BBC reporting closure of Birmingham Airport following a small executive aircraft crash this afternoon.

BBC News - Birmingham Airport shut as transplant aircraft crashes

Reports that it hit the ils antenna, imagine that will take a while to replace, at least all in board ok and the organ made it intact to hospital

Running here since 1600................

http://www.pprune.org/biz-jets-ag-fl...-accident.html

Talk about finger on the pulse...

At the time of landing there was no fog at the airport.

The live liver was taken by ambulance (not by police motorcycle) and escorted by police motorcycles and looks to be okay for transplant.

Situation on the pilot/s.

One critical - pelvic, abdominal and chest injuries. One had flash burns. The critical pilot was flown by air ambulance.

What he said

Me too.......

Maybe, realising it was significant news, the OP checked the top threads here and didn't see it...

Maybe it IS news and the Mods shouldn't have been so quick (again) to shovel the news off to the biz jet forum..?

quote from the BBC

23c...spot on.

Hope the crew recover.

23C because we like to keep our little world to ourselves, don't need the snotty airline guys chirping in now do we ;)

yadda yadda yadda. :zzz: Standby for a locking. FWIW I agree. An AOC op to an international airport where there is speculation about weather, instrument approach criteria etc is deemed not to be of importance to the wider commercial aviation community. Meanwhile, cracked windscreens and endless tech stuff about Trent 900 engines (specific to one type and a few airlines) attract front page status.

Of course, it isn't the members' forum; at least that is the line which is normally rolled out. :rolleyes:

Edited to say this message, like others, was moved from R&N :ugh:

Perhaps there should be an independent arbiter...

Threads should be left here until 24 hours have elapsed in which Sky haven't used the material on air, then they may be shunted off at will..?

Blah blah went downhill blah blah sold out blah Danny blah...

BHX closed due accident
 

Hello Road Hog

I beg to differ re the visibility, post 65.

A friend of mine witnessed the accident. Thick fog had suddenly drifted over the 15 end of the runway.

BHXRWY33

Okay, my info didn't come from pilots, so I suppose it is down to an understanding of how the weather is described, but it did come from the people waiting to pick up the organ.

Road Hog, have a look at the picture on the BBC news site, in any language that is not "clear" weather

The appropriate METARS were posted here previously

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...4491_plane.jpg

Moderators
 

The pressure is growing for a response, could I respectfully add my request for an answer please. If this accident isn't news then what is?
This site is the Professional Pilots Rumour Network, the crew on this jet were professional pilots and yet their incident seems to be not worthy of being on the mainstream front page of the news forum..........

Maybe the website should be re-named the Airline Pilots Rumour Network?

:sad:

All Biz jet accidents and incidents have always been discussed here and not on the R&N thread. This is where it belongs.

Have to agree, strange decision to move the thread. As a scheduled airline pilot who was about to take off for BHX this afternoon I checked Prune as soon as I got home to find out the latest. If it's headline news on the BBC I kind of expect it to be in R&N on Prune, almost by definition. Mind you if I was a mod I don't think I'd feel I had to explain myself. Hope the pilots recover OK.