Plane crashes off runway at Heathrow

Post by **faceless** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:10 pm

[web]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1770&ct=5[/web]

It's not terror related? Well of course it isn't! Were we to assume that terrorists tampered with its brakes? Feel the fear!

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:46 pm

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Powerless: Flight BA38 skims rooftops, its nose up as the pilot grapples to stay airborne

Moment of truth: Sparks fly beneath a broken wing as the jet belly-flops onto the grass, just inside the perimeter fence

Race for safety: Emergency chutes are released and passengers flee the stricken plane[/align]

That first pic really shows how lucky everyone was! That can't be more than a few hundred feet off the ground.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:23 pm

That day was really gloomy and possibly raining .... so I think that really helped in reducing the possibility of any spark when the plane touched the ground.

Well done to the co-pilot

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:27 am

How long before it landed did the engines cut out? I can't believe the pilot had the strength to keep it steady gliding in.

Not to say the story is false -- just incredible.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:34 am

I'm wondering about it too... if you do a close-up on the engines in the first image you can see that the fans are moving, not static, so something must have been working. One report I saw was blaming the fuel supply - because it was refuelled in China... and we all know that China are backward and incapable of creating quality kerosene!

Bat · Post by **Bat** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:35 pm

An old RAF fella wrote in a letter to a newspaper that he reckoned the engines did not cut out but went into reverse thrust and slowed the plane right down to almost stalling point. Sounds feasible to me.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:52 pm

ah right, that would explain it then

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:16 pm

Reading thread above is the first time I heard the theory that the engines cut out. I understood it that during landing the pilots ask for extra thrust .. and this time, the engines didn't react .. thus they kept running at their prior speed.

If the engines went into reverse thrust in-flight, then I think the plane would drop like a stone, which isn't what happened.

Bat · Post by **Bat** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:25 pm

This is the real reason why it crashed