Video: that 1997 Virgin Airbus A340 crashlanding at Heathrow

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Video: that 1997 Virgin Airbus A340 crashlanding at Heathrow

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NprTbTVl1Uk [/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NprTbTVl1Uk

In the immediate aftermath of this incident in 1997 at Heathrown only photos appeared of Virgin Airbus A-340 G-VSKY landing with only part of her undercarriage down, but as you can see above also video footage has now come to light!

It concerns this incident:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19971106-1

After this mishap G-VSKY remained in service with Virgin until 2003, when she was sold to BWIA.
According to http://www.planespotters.net/Production ... lantic.php this then only 15-years-old airframe was scrapped in 2009 :(

I stumbled upon this all at http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forum ... 93178/1/#1 :idea:
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Re: Video: that 1997 Virgin Airbus A340 crashlanding at Heat

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it always amazes me how crews keep aircraft on the runway in these cases.
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