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The quote is spreading like wild fire! Sky, feeling left out, want's a slice of that pie! http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...277929,00.html
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"The aircraft will be thoroughly examined before either are permitted to operate again." said BA
Personally I think BA management should be 'thoroughly examined before' being allowed to manage again.
PS Can I get on the Beeb too?
Personally I think BA management should be 'thoroughly examined before' being allowed to manage again.
PS Can I get on the Beeb too?
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I have some photo's from a friend who works in engineering. the reg of the airbus that was hit is: G-EUXH. something is lodged in the tailplane but can't quite make out what it is
I guess this is why I heard a BA outbound from the Kilos the other day being refused taxi clearance with a company aircraft not fully on stand but inside the white line.
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maarten4, was the incident you were on about on Friday at around 14:00 hrs? It's just I'm a serving fire-fighter at Heathrow. We received a call over at S3, ATC cleared us (emergency crossing N4W) and sent one around, I remember thinking how p,,,,d off that captain must be as he was almost on the deck. If it was you it certainly looked the dogs as you went overhead 
(wish I had my camera).
(wish I had my camera).
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Hi diedtrying,
LHR Atco here, we are taught that unless the aircraft is very very close to touching down we give priority to AFS doing emergency crossings in front of landing traffic and if required send the aircraft around. At N4W it could be say 30 seconds if the aircraft is short final and you have to wait for it to roll past you. Time which if wasted in your arrival could be costly in terms of lives.
LHR Atco here, we are taught that unless the aircraft is very very close to touching down we give priority to AFS doing emergency crossings in front of landing traffic and if required send the aircraft around. At N4W it could be say 30 seconds if the aircraft is short final and you have to wait for it to roll past you. Time which if wasted in your arrival could be costly in terms of lives.
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GT3 Please don't think I was having a dig, the controler that day was switched on he did a fantastic job, we needed to get accross fast due to the nature of the call. I was just passing a comment, so close yet so far sort of thing. Sorry for any missunderstanding.
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Diedtrying
The incident you're referring to is a different one. I was doing air north at the time of your incident and my colleague on air south did indeed do a fantastic job ( mickrobbo) of getting you guys there as quickly as possible. Big thumbs up to you all as well as it seemed to only be about 30 secs from the call to the first fire vehicles crossing the runway.
The whole 15 minutes was like a TRUCE exercise as the police heli was in the area chasing someone which stopped deps for a while, and at the time of the emergency he wanted to cross the 27L approach to continue the pursuit!!
FB
The incident you're referring to is a different one. I was doing air north at the time of your incident and my colleague on air south did indeed do a fantastic job (
mickrobbo) of getting you guys there as quickly as possible. Big thumbs up to you all as well as it seemed to only be about 30 secs from the call to the first fire vehicles crossing the runway.The whole 15 minutes was like a TRUCE exercise as the police heli was in the area chasing someone which stopped deps for a while, and at the time of the emergency he wanted to cross the 27L approach to continue the pursuit!!
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Diedtrying, I didn't think you were having a dig mate. It was more to explain for the others on here what happens if you guys call to cross when they are coming in to land. Keep up the good work!
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OK maarten4,
fly bhoy & GT3, Not to hijack this thread but how are you finding it being up in the clouds now? and does it sway in the wind? (and for all you dirty minds out there I mean the tower).
fly bhoy & GT3, Not to hijack this thread but how are you finding it being up in the clouds now? and does it sway in the wind? (and for all you dirty minds out there I mean the tower).
