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Crash-landed plane moved
20/01/2008 16:37 - (SA)
London - A recovery operation was underway
on Sunday to move a British Airways Boeing 777 that crash-landed
at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday.
The 200-ton aircraft, which suffered engine problems and
came down well short of the southern runway, was being moved
onto electronically controlled platforms in an operation
expected to take several hours.
The plane will then start a 500m journey from the end
of the runway to the airline's engineering base at Hatton Cross,
which is expected to take a further two hours.
Bruce Hunter, BA's general manager for operational
maintenance, said: "BA's specialist recovery team of 20
engineers flies round the world helping airlines move stranded
aircraft."
Thirteen people were lightly injured when BA flight 38 from
Beijing failed to respond to demands for more thrust on its
final approach for landing and came down, barely managing to
evade barriers at the airport perimeter.
The 136 passengers were evacuated down the aircraft's
emergency chutes as fire crews doused the plane with foam.
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