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Been watching this for the last hour on the TV,

BBC NEWS | England | London | Airliner crash lands at Heathrow

someone/something must have been watching over the passengers and crew today. Flying myself in four weeks and i hope i have that pilot flying the plane.

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Been watching this too. Wonder what happened..

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That picture brought back memories! A similar thing happened on our flight to Canada when I was a child, we crash landed with fire engines spraying us with foam as we came down, then we had to slide down the chutes and leave everything behind.

I hope everyone recovers from the scare. My mum is still terrified of flying, but it doesn't bother me at all - the way I see it is I've had my scare & I'd have to be extremely unlucky for it to happen again!

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I'm only glad that the plane's engines failed only when they did, and not 10 minutes earlier - otherwise it might have been good-bye for yours truly.

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Someone was definitely watching over those passengers. We are flying from Heathrow in 4 weeks. To be honest, I don't tend to worry about flying, in the grand scheme of things it is still the safest way to travel. I'll give you a wave as we pass over your house Tealeaf....:D

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Wrong direction. I'm under the landing path, not the take off path. You should be able to give the Queen a wave if she's in Windsor.

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WARNING.....................

DO NOT show this to ginger......:D

we fly out in May, and its his first time, AND he is quietly bricking it :D

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im flying in may as well and it seems that everytime im about to go on holiday something like this happens, eeither in real life or dreams

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saw a couple interviewed n they thought at first it was just a bumpy landing, the positive i can see in this crash, is the plane is virtually intact, black boxes been removed n everyone is fit to be interviewed, so possibly a result on what actually happened, as a frequent passenger that pleases me.

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they were very lucky passengers.

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I hope no one had a jacksie full of drug filled condoms up 'em.

They would more than likely have been evacuated first, before the person even hit the emergency slide.

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It’s frightening to think how bad it could have been; no doubt the full story will come out over the weekend. Excellent work by the pilot and crew going off what the passengers are saying it must have been a fantastically smooth landing. Well done.

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I didn't know Rindy was back in the smoke...........:D:D:D

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Being in the industry myself, I too drive a Boeing Product although the 737 is not as nice as a 777, It just goes to prove the point that aviation is pretty dammed safe.
Great job done by all concerned, I just hope that the lad's don't get blamed by the powers that be, although that could be hard having just read the interim report on the pilot website, PPrune.
Great work by the Cabin Crew as well, at 600 ft there might not have been time for the lad's in the pointy end to have got the warning out as they were probably rather busy.

So next time you all fly as Pax remember to give the Cabin Crew a bit of your time and listen to the safety briefing and also have a quick read of the card. look around find your nearest exit and count how many rows you are from it. I do this even on a 737, which I fly for a living. It could save your life.

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What they trying to say? was it pilot error Heathrow plane crash 'not mechanical failure' - Telegraph

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Well written mate:theband::theband:

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It is interesting to note that the spar fuel valve's on the 777 are not automaticly cut off when you pull the fire switch as they are on every other Boeing Jet Product.
To try and put this into laymans terms, it is similar to you turning off your ignition key on your car first, then disconecting the fuel pump.
In the event of an engine fire when you pull the fire switch you want everything connected to fuel and ignition to close and turn off. I see the FAA (American, Federal Aviation Authority) have set a deadline of 2010 to retro fit a auto turn off on fire switch pull, this time scale is normal.
The reason the crew did their actions simultaneously is simply down to time, in an event of evacutation being required.
Boeing's Standard Procedures are that both pilots will do their actions independantly, because when evacuating every second really does count.

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So why did this plane ever get off the ground without auto cut off valves if the FAA insist on them?

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Maybe thats a question for the authorities. The aircraft was certified as safe and the mere fact that there was no loss of life goes to show how safe flying is. I can only take it that Boeing had good reason to design the aircraft in the way that they did. This subject is being debated with some fever over on PPrune by Pilots, Engineers, Pax and others.