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Nov 20, 2011 | 2:00 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Heathrow Tower

LHR Air Traffic Controller here:

Funniest thing (albeit unintentionally!) flight crew ever asked me, was at about 1330 on 18th December, 2010 at.......

"Errr, Tower, the snow doesn't look too bad, do you think the runway will be closed for long?"

Welcome to the BA board.^

That Pilot/FO must have worked in the press department for BAA then as I remember a BAA staffer on tv that day, saying everything was running as normal when the snow was coming down thick and fast behind him and it was obvious that things wouldn't stay that way.