London Heathrow Emergency Landing

Found a link on another forum

https://twitter.com/TBoneGallagher

This guy was on the flight. The media are saying a possible bird strike. Going on this guys twitter feed it looks like there could have been damage to both engines. The video on tv of it coming in shows smoke from the right engine. His photo looks to show something going on with the left one too

EDIT: damn, beaten
 
sbi5ar said:
I've heard conflicting reports about which engine was on fire and the state of the other
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So the facts seem to be:

1) The video footage clearly shows the right engine with smoke coming out of the back

2) The picture tweeted by that guy (i.e. a passenger) clearly shows the cowling missing from the left engine.

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So the left hand engine looks to have been shutdown and there was an engine fire in the right hand engine.
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Lots of speculation there. The only thing I can say for certain is that the flight crew performed admirably. Cool as a cucumber all the way.
 
Scuzi said:
Lots of speculation there. The only thing I can say for certain is that the flight crew performed admirably. Cool as a cucumber all the way.
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Well, I did say which bit was speculation.

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Scuzi said:
Lots of speculation there. The only thing I can say for certain is that the flight crew performed admirably. Cool as a cucumber all the way.
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Not sure if you still work in ATC but how do these type of things normally go down? Calm and collected or 'OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!'?
 
Nightglow said:
Wonder where in London that missing cowling landed.:eek:

Superb job done by the pilots though.
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Probably in someone's garden somewhere...


[FnG]magnolia;24335039 said:
Not sure if you still work in ATC but how do these type of things normally go down? Calm and collected or 'OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!'?
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If you're talking about the pilots then they'll be calm and collected. A lot of training goes into CRM (crew resource management) so that in situations like this they work together and keep what was only an incident from turning into an accident.
 
[FnG]magnolia;24335039 said:
Not sure if you still work in ATC but how do these type of things normally go down? Calm and collected or 'OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!'?
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I'd imagine unless they are plummeting to the ground in a fireball it's all calm

 
I live under the flight path of Heathrow airport in Hounslow. When the terminals was closed it was the best 1 hour rest I had, silent and all you can hear is the birds. It felt odd though, I'm used to hearing a plane going over my house every few minutes or so.
 
These pilots really show there worth in these situations, Kudos to the crew. :cool:


On a side note Prince Charles & Camilla's helicopter had a problem as well.
 
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