Suffered considerable ribaldry from colleague yesterday, given they were returning by Aer Lingus to Heathrow, that I'd be flying home on a wing and a cinder ... IF I actually got away today ... etc.

As we stepped from the taxi at the terminal the disorganisation arising from the earlier closure was continuing. Some Ryanair were over 4 hours late. You always know it's bad when the FIDS arrivals screens have so many previously delayed flights shown that they run out of space to show the current arrivals. So there was a moment of quiet satisfaction to find his EI flight was departing 90 minutes late, while mine ... was on time

What does this have to do with the thread ? Well the hangar involved, belonging to the big maintenance contractor long based at Dublin, appears to be the same one that the last airline 707 got it's first (and last) D-check in, all those years ago, as described above.

Here's a nice shot of a Cityjet 146 accompanying the press release about the fire. Don't open it if your wife is looking over your shoulder.

http://www.cityjet.com/news/statemen...-airport.shtml

and some nice shots of their 146/RJs in action