By188b From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 701 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 2350 times:
According to news reports this evening
''a plane carrying 200 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at LHR after the pilot detected a possible fault.
The Lufthansa airbus flight 4578 was on its way from munich to london when the problem emerged.
A helicopter from solent coastguard escorted the aircraft to heathrow and the plane landed safely''
Source Teletext news (London region) p334
Any know what happened?
Also Lufthansa website shows flight 4578 is the AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA-BRU flight. The MUC-LHR flight is LH4764 and landed at 2056pm instead of the scheduled time of 2025pm.
next flights : BD LHR-TXL J, FR SXF-STN Y, SN BRU-LHR Y, MA LHR-BUD Y, BA BUD-LHR J, BA LCY-SNN-JFK J, BA JFK-LHR J, BA
Ps76 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2013 times:
Was watching planes (and eating Mc.Donalds...) at LHR this evening and did see a red helicopter with loads of guys pointing their telescopes / cameras at it probably around 7.45-8.15 pm. Don't know if that was the one mentioned but also noticed it because it came low from the north and then instead of getting clearance and crossing right over I think it kinda turned to the west?
I guess that's all I know. There were LOADS of people watching planes at LHR this evening though. The weather was good
StargoldLHR From Heard and McDonald Islands, joined Feb 2004, 1529 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1793 times:
I did notice a runway change around this time, as I saw an aircraft (think it was Swiss) abort and go around just after an LH landing. I seem to recall the LH Aircraft wasnt the usual A320.
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Londoncenter From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 108 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1694 times:
The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit when he declared the emergency. However he later changed his miond and said that there was no smoke, just a strange smell. Better to be safe than sorry though!
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