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Virgin A340 Crash Heathrow - 1997

18-10-2012 12:08PM

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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 18-10-2012 12:15PM

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?

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#3 18-10-2012 12:44PM

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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.

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#4 18-10-2012 01:50PM

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Aircraft was repaired and remained in service with VS until 2003-ish IIRC

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#5 19-10-2012 08:58PM

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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