BA242 (MEX-LHR) breaks Duke of Edinburgh's funeral silence
Apr 17, 2021, 10:17 am
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BA242 (MEX-LHR) breaks Duke of Edinburgh's funeral silence
Heathrow Airport announced on Friday that it was prohibiting planes from taking off or touching down for a six-minute period coinciding with the national one-minute silence at 3pm, which will mark the start of the service.
Pity that BA's 242 was one of two airline flying over whilst the silence was ending. It flew over the long drive at 15:02. Couldn't it have been put in a brief hold?
Pity that BA's 242 was one of two airline flying over whilst the silence was ending. It flew over the long drive at 15:02. Couldn't it have been put in a brief hold?
Apr 17, 2021, 1:15 pm
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The pilot should have just stopped the plane and shut the engines for a couple of minutes. Surely they have a parking brake handle, right?
On a serious note, I've just gone into FR24 playback mode, and there were a couple of planes flying over the area, but neither seem to be BA. Qatar Cargo QR8291 was landing on 09R and Ryanair FR8975 was flying over to Stansted.
I was looking at 1500UTC which would have been 1600BST. OP is right re: BA242, but they forgot to mention Kenya KQ2100 ahead and Singapore SQ308 behind of the BA plane. I'd blame it on LHR air traffic if anyone, but the environmental conerns clearly outweight the 2mins of silence.
I was looking at 1500UTC which would have been 1600BST. OP is right re: BA242, but they forgot to mention Kenya KQ2100 ahead and Singapore SQ308 behind of the BA plane. I'd blame it on LHR air traffic if anyone, but the environmental conerns clearly outweight the 2mins of silence.
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Apr 17, 2021, 1:20 pm
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Me too, in T5! By the same bright mind who, while waiting for the gate I was working on to open, read a Lonely Planet guide of Paris and proclaimed loudly to his wife “Some of these paintings are old”.
Obviously ‘Murican.
Obviously ‘Murican.
Apr 17, 2021, 1:52 pm
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The pilot should have just stopped the plane and shut the engines for a couple of minutes. Surely they have a parking brake handle, right?
On a serious note, I've just gone into FR24 playback mode, and there were a couple of planes flying over the area, but neither seem to be BA. Qatar Cargo QR8291 was landing on 09R and Ryanair FR8975 was flying over to Stansted.
I was looking at 1500UTC which would have been 1600BST. OP is right re: BA242, but they forgot to mention Kenya KQ2100 ahead and Singapore SQ308 behind of the BA plane. I'd blame it on LHR air traffic if anyone, but the environmental conerns clearly outweight the 2mins of silence.
I was looking at 1500UTC which would have been 1600BST. OP is right re: BA242, but they forgot to mention Kenya KQ2100 ahead and Singapore SQ308 behind of the BA plane. I'd blame it on LHR air traffic if anyone, but the environmental conerns clearly outweight the 2mins of silence.