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Virgin A340 Crash Heathrow - 1997

  • 18-10-2012 12:08pm
    #1
    charliehotel
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    Have only seen photos of this event before now, very interesting to see the (unfortunately grainy) video. Would the aircraft have been written-off ?


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  • #2
    BeardySi
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    Not even heard of that one before, pilots did extremely well to get everyone down safe with no left main! Not sure if it qualifies as a crash though... forced landing?


  • #3
    drdeadlift
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    It took him a bit of distance to stop,that had me thinking would it have been better to land at a less cluttered airport maybe somewhere like Manston.
    Would be less chance of crashing into a building if he had left the runway as well as not holding up many other flights.


  • #4
    BuffyBot
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    Aircraft was repaired and remained in service with VS until 2003-ish IIRC


  • #5
    charliehotel
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    BuffyBot wrote: »
    Aircraft was repaired and remained in service with VS until 2003-ish IIRC

    Very interesting, thought such an incident wouldn't be financially viable. Cheers for that :)


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