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3 Treated for minor injuries. It landed just in front of the fence on 27L. It came to rest just to the right of the 27L numbers. I guess from the pictures on TV is under carridge went at about 20Metres as they dug in, it then slid probably another 400M - 600M before comming to rest.
Air crash investigators are trying to work out why a Boeing 777 landed short of the runway at London Heathrow airport, skidding on grass and ripping apart sections of the aircraft.
Good thing no one was seriously hurt, this could have ended very ugly. Gotta wonder what happened on board that lead to the jet landing several hundred meters short.
Of course, you can always count on CNN to do their work correctly - quote from the article:
A spokesman for Heathrow -- the world's busiest airport
At this point id like to congratulate the crew for getting the plane down without any serious injuries. Knowing the area around LHR, if that huge 777 had landed any earlier the casualties could have been catastrophic. Even putting it down on the runway in the condition it was in could have resulted in a far worse outcome giving how busy LHR is with traffic.
Reports are that all power was lost around 500ft...
In any case, this won't do BA's current reputation any good what with the huge management screw up with cabin crew reaching maximum hours and flights having to be cancelled worldwide either. I was on a flight back from NRT last week that was subsequently axed due to 'operational reasons'. I can see a sharp dive in share price on the not so distant horizon...
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