Obelix Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Also known as a crash.... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30625945 Finger crossed it'll work. There is going to be an awful lot of foam clearing later on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Also known as a crash.... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30625945 Finger crossed it'll work. There is going to be an awful lot of foam clearing later on... It's a 747, so it's a serious incident. ---------- Post added 29-12-2014 at 15:35 ---------- They've just shown the route that the plane has taken via one of the plane tracker apps on BBC news, and it's been circling over the English Channel south of Brighton. It was a Gatwick to Las Vegas flight, so it must have been using up fuel/dumping the fuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 (edited) News 24 just showed a picture of it going round and round over a VOR. It's outer gear is up, and the inner gear (the 747 has four sets of main gear) is part retracted as is the nosewheel. I think they want a really long runway and a lot of foam. Gatwick isnt really big enough I suspect Heathrow will be getting busy with the fire tenders... Edited December 29, 2014 by Obelix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 News 24 just showed a picture of it going round and round over a VOR. It's outer gear is up, and the inner gear (the 747 has four sets of main gear) is part retracted as is the nosewheel. I think they want a really long runway and a lot of foam. Stanstead isnt really big enough I suspect Heathrow will be getting busy with the fire tenders... Apparently they're heading to Gatwick. BBC News just said that they've also done a couple of low passes over Gatwick for the engineers to check the plane out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 ...visions of someone firing a harpoon at the landing gear to try and tug it down as it goes past.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 The 747 is approaching Gatwick again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manchild Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 I wish everyone on it the very best of luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Landed okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 It's landed safely, with no problems. All's well that ends well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 They must have persuaded some of the gear to come down and lock then that was fortunate. Nice work by the pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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