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So now I know what BA stand's for :o
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DaveG wrote:Looks like this is the cause of the incident: LINK
Since when did the 777 use a big pair of Bristols?
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

It doesn't Jonesey but it probably suffered wake turbulence off the pair on the ground :worried:

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There was the mobile vid..........

There may be video but it might be kept by the authorities until all the findings are known :dunno:

It does seem bizarre to think nowadays something of that magnitutde would go unoticed :think:

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Mind you, usually (with me anyway) (Not talking about disasters or accidents either) - I can go out with the camera 364 days a year, and the one day I leave it, I think 'Crikey oh f******* bo**ocks etc' wish I had the camera!' Or, if I do have it, I turn around just it time to see I've missed the shot!
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I realize that this is years late, but I've only just found this topic.
I actually watched in disbelief as the 707 flew past the end of our garden on its Northolt landing. I'd seen them at London Airport, but the biggest we were used to at Northolt were the C130s. There was quite a bit of reporting and chat in the days following. That would have been 1962 or thereabouts; I could research it, but you guys probably already know the date and time! They had to strip heaps of fittings to reduce the weight for take off from that short runway. The big coincidence is that I asked an ex air traffic controller to talk at a Neighbourhood Watch meeting in Victoria, Australia, in about 1997. He was aghast that he had turned up on the other side of the planet only to find someone who was aware of that incident. He was the controller who was talking the 707 down! (Sorry, but I don't have any photos!)

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Thanks for the photo Garry,
My, how the memory plays tricks! I had thought all these years that it took a couple of days, not hours. But I DID remember it was LAP in those days and not Heathrow.

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