BA38 - Air Crash Investigation

For anyone that may be interested, next monday (7th march) at 9pm, is a new series of Air Crash Investigation starting on National Geographic channel, 1st episode is looking into flight BA38 that landed short of the runway at heathrow a couple of years back!

[Neil]

Cool - was wondering when the new ACI started, shall certainly be watching, so thanks for the heads up.

Neil

Looking forward to watching it, Alex... We took off from LHR just before the incident happened.

We got to IAD and into the people mover and everyone switched their phones on and were talking about the crash at Heathrow...

Im looking forward to seeing it and then im not at the same time

cheers

alex

Cool -

Cool -

alex

Thanks for letting us know. Very interested to see this, a friend of a friend was crew on this flight.

Luke

[Neil]

Cool -

I meant cool the programme is back with a new series! I love ACI.

I wonder if they will include one of the initial thoughs of the cause was that Gordon Brown's motorcade was driving past at the same time and all the extra radio traffice from the security detail etc caused a problem with the electrical systems.

Thanks for the info.

I set the Betamax

R-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCK62U6Fob0

This is worth a listen - Full ATC recording from the incident. The guy in the tower earnt his money that day! He handled it brilliantly.

Matt

Mattyp

I've just wasted an hour listening to that short recording & then LOADS of other links to ATC recordings.

I was supposed to be busy.

I'm not going to follow a V-Flyer link ever again.......until the next time

R-P

I've just wasted an hour listening to that short recording & then LOADS of other links to ATC recordings.

I was supposed to be busy.

The joys of youtube! Hope this afternon is more productive for you!

Matt

I'll be drafting my outbound TR to MCO on 17/2 which'll be a novel.

It starts last June & lasts upto the moment we stepped off the plane

R-P

Hi everyone!

Have been lurking here for longer than I dare admit so thought it was time to register and say hello:)

I'm a Pilot (not for Virgin - I fly little jets ) and a Virgin "virgin" until September when I fly to NY UC hence my original reason for checking out this website. I especially love reading your Trip Reports (I'll make sure to provide some as well).

I've been following the BA38 incident very closely for professional reasons so thought you may be interested in the official accident report from the AAIB investigation that took place. Some of you may have read it but for those that haven't here's a link:

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/sites/aaib/publi ... ctions.cfm

It will be interesting to see how closely the TV programme covers the official findings.

The Captain and First Officer on BA38 displayed supreme airmanship and are a credit to the industry. And as mattyp mentioned the controller at Heathrow that day certainly earned his pay!

Cheers

Adam

Hi trafficpilot

First of all welcome to V-Flyer

Secondly, thank you for the report, very interseting.

I recorded the programme on Beatmax last night & have yet to watch it.

TTFN R-P

[honey lamb]

Hi trafficpilot

First of all welcome to V-Flyer

Secondly, thank you for the report, very interseting.

I recorded the programme on Beatmax last night & have yet to watch it.

TTFN R-P

You'll have a difficulty in watching it - it's not on till next Monday

Oh bum

What did I record last night then - What Katie Did Next?

R-P

Brings back memories; I was due to be travelling to Beijing on the return leg that very day. Arriving at the airport I pulled my camera out, submitted the photo to our picture desk and got the front page of BBC News, Sky and a few other sites/papers.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkiboo/2205069572/

Made it to Beijing only 3 hours late (although BA did cancel their entire short haul operation that day)

[Scrooge]

As I sit here, I have to wonder what it's like to be in a crash like that, we all take flying for granted so much, in my life I have flown way over a million miles, I've had two go arounds and one server turbulence.

A cousin on my wife's side has actually been in two crashes, he was in the business jet over Brazil that hit a HOL 738 and he was on US 1594, actually he was the last person off that plane.

We have a family wedding coming up, I must corner him.

We have a family wedding coming up, I must corner him.

Or never travel with him....

The whole BA38 thing has many, many dimensions.

Not least, the human story surrounding the Captain - I've followed this in depth since the day it happened, and it's a salutary tale.

I wonder just how much, and how accurately, that side of events will be portrayed.