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Old Dec 13, 2007 | 3:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Javan69
This may be a dumb question but are departures -- especially int'ls -- ever delayed b/c fog .

I flew into LHR a few years ago and we had to circle over sunny London while Heathrow was fogged in. The pilot (thanks to channel 9) declared a very low fuel situation, jumped way ahead in line and on the second attempt were able to land.
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