http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm
The thing which strikes me is just how much this eyewitness wants to make absolutely clear that he's certain about things:
Another eyewitness, Nick Gray, told BBC News: "We were taxiing along ready to take off and certainly out of the window I could see a plane coming in to land. I'm not quite sure if the under carriage was missing or not, but certainly what we saw was the plane coming down. There were some sparks as the undercarriage or the bottom of the plane actually touched the runway - certainly a huge amount of smoke coming up from that. And then the plane did come to a halt reasonably quickly. It was incredibly efficient the speed that people got off the aircraft. I could see that the chutes were deployed very quickly and people were coming down on that. Then people were sent off to the nearby buildings which are probably only about 200 yards away from the plane. There about six fire engines there now. There seems to have been regular dousing of foam on the port engine which obviously probably was the hottest one where the plane landed. Certainly there is a lot of activity and lots of vehicles with flashing lights all around the plane."
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 17 January 2008 14:25 (eighteen years ago)
Original version of that page had "I could see that the shoots were deployed very quickly and people were coming down on that". <-Anti-terrorist controlled-landing cover-up at the beeb?
"Port engine" ooh, aren't you the aviation expert "which obviously probably was the hottest one where the plane landed" oh maybe you're not.
― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 17 January 2008 14:54 (eighteen years ago)
even emergency landing slides look fun but they should never be grey.
― blueski, Thursday, 17 January 2008 15:00 (eighteen years ago)