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Qantas pilot caused alarm at Heathrow

London, Uk - Forcing to re-open a runway closed for overnight maintenance

Last week end the pilot of a Qantas B747 caused alarm at the London airport of Heathrow by arriving almost a hour before than scheduled and, mostly, because he forced airport personnel to hurry in re-opening a runway closed for overnight maintenance. The pilot in fact told controllers he was not able to carry out a manual landing, because there was too much cloud obscuring his view and his radar was...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 31539
Rome, Italy, 07/30/2002 12:33
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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