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VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:04by jwhite9185
Just watching on BBC news - appears that G-VOGE is stuck in the middle of 09R due to the snow!
Quite amusing seeing the flight crew hanging out the flight deck window waving at the news helicopter!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:06by contractor
They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:09by FamilyMan
just heard this in Milan - get off the runway I want to fly in.
FM
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:11by jwhite9185
contractor wrote:They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.
No, its Cover Girl.
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:15by contractor
jwhite9185 wrote:contractor wrote:They zoomed in a minute ago. It's Cosmic Girl.
No, its Cover Girl.
Yes, sorry. They zoomed in a bit further this time
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:17by contractor
So I guess it's full of passengers trying to get to Miami. So near, yet so far. I really do feel sorry for all onboard.
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:17by clarkeysntfc
The captain waving was funny!
Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:18by jwhite9185
clarkeysntfc wrote:The captain waving was funny!
Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?
VS005. BBC are saying theres passengers on board. Although how they can see BBC news onboard on be able to text in i dont know!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:19by contractor
jwhite9185 wrote:clarkeysntfc wrote:The captain waving was funny!
Which flight is it operating? Are there passengers stuck on board?
VS005. BBC are saying theres passengers on board. Although how they can see BBC news onboard on be able to text in i dont know!
Not to mention doors are shut and all that and no PEDs allowed 8D
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:23by FamilyMan
more to the point - I thought lhr was closed till 16:00 for snow clearing.
FM
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:33by cagcowboy
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:50by duggy83
Loving some of the blatantly made up tweets from people "on the plane"
http://twitter.com/#!/snewman2"@BBC i'm on the virgin atlantic plane on the south runway and we are running out of food and drinks"
You've got through the 9 hours worth of food and drink that the plane would have been loaded with in an hour on the ground? yeahhh...!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 15:58by holliefabbabe
we spent two hours on the runway in may and it wasnt snow that caused it ,lmao
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 16:26by DragonLady
Cover Girl brought me home from LAX last week
. I thought the airport was closed until 5pm though so what was it doing?
The weather at LHR looks nearly as grim as it is here - we might be having gruel for our Christams lunch as we're well and truly snowed in
! .
DL
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 16:51by holliefabbabe
i hope everyone can get home , then let it snow , and snow so poor shop workers can have boxing day off
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 17:14by clarkeysntfc
This BBC News journalist is a disgrace, the phone interview with the VS passenger and the VS Comms Director are a joke with phrases like 'terrifying'...
I'm getting a bit fed up with these journos plugging the 'UK has 2 flakes of snow and grinds to a halt whilst everyone else carries on' myth. Large parts of N Europe are struggling, Frankfurt/Munich/Paris/Switzerland have all been badly affected in recent weeks. Rapid falls of heavy snow will cause issues almost everywhere south of the artic circle!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 18:08by holliefabbabe
well done to greg from va, spot on mate,
as for point above yep prague closed a few days ago
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 18:12by David
BBC are reporting that it was the inbound from MIA rather than a departing flight.
Kinda explains some of the comments
David
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 18:55by betterman0112
David wrote:BBC are reporting that it was the inbound from MIA rather than a departing flight.
Yes it was this mornings inbound flight!! The pax were kept on the plane for 5 hrs, so they may well have been running out of food and drink!
Kinda explains some of the comments
David
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 19:50by slinky09
Interview with someone on the plane on the BBC
here - sounds very complementary about how VS handled things!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 20:00by Scrooge
Ok, so it was an incoming flight.
Anyways, great PR for VS, for once a pax doesn't try to blame everything on the airline.
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 20:06by clarkeysntfc
Agree on good PR for virgin, but the questions from beeb journalist pretty stupid...
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 20:07by StillRedHot
I can't listen as I'm on my iPhone
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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18 Dec 2010, 20:18by CHill710
sounds like fun flight a go-around and then landing in heavy snow.
at least the BBC found a happy passenger and not one who moans a lot!
Re: VS 346 Stuck!
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19 Dec 2010, 15:16by Golfman
As usual...lots of mis-reporting..The plane wasn't stuck at all on the runway. It was sitting on one of the taxiways while waiting for a parking bay.