Airport Operations

© 2018 Richard Moxon, Center for Air Transport Management, Cornfield University 1. Incident Background It is 12:45 on January 17th 2008. You are the terminal duty manager at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 (T2) working a 12 hour 06:00 – 18:00 operational shift. You have just received notification of an aircraft accident at the airport. A British Airways Boeing 777-236ER registration G-YMMM has touched down some 330m short of the paved surface of runway 27L at 12:42. The aircraft has come to a rest on the paved surface of the undershoot area of runway 27L. See Figure 1. Figure 1 : G-YMMM at Runway 27L (‘southern runway’) undershoot shortly after the accident. Source : UK Department for Transport Cabin crew supervised the emergency evacuation of the cabin and all occupants left the aircraft although it is understood that some passengers and crew are injured. The airport’s aircraft accident (on airport) emergency plan was instigated following the Heathrow Tower crash message sent at 12:42:22 (DfT, 20101 ). 1 Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow on 17th January 2008, UK Department for Transport (Air Accident Investigations Branch), 2010.                                                        

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