Heathrow!

[tiggerblue10]

There has been crash landing on one of the runways at Heathrow today. If anyone is travelling from there today check with your airline before leaving home.

This is just for info.

[4GS]

Here's a link

http://news.sky.com/skynews/home

[kwicky]

And to think Gordon was sitting in full view on the runway at Heathrow waiting to take off for China.

[Gromit]

You are right kwicky, the man is sooo unlucky, disaster follows wherever he goes.

[Whoever]

I can only hope that in the light of this very near disaster, the government and commercial airline industri will now abandon their plans for an additional runway at Heathrow which will only increase the future risk of something like this happening again over a densely packed residential area - next time with possibly tragic results.

Or will the business and commercial lobby yet again prevail over the safety risks to hundreds of thousands of people living around and directly under the flight paths?

[woodfellow]

OK Whoever. If you don,t want Heathrow, move it to Cardiff-we,ll have it, and all the benefits that go with it. Don't think that would go down well with Londeners-do you!

[Whoever]

Woodfellow - you'd be welcome to it. But if your particular house was located directly under one of the many flight paths of Heathrow, I suspect your initial enthusiasm, even with the employment benefits an airport brings, would soon become rather muted ! Try it night after night after night........and sitting in your garden and having to shout every 60 seconds to somebody across your patio table to make yourself heard !

[woodfellow]

Hi Whoever. Easy solution-move to Cardiff- house prices are cheaper than London, and it's very friendly here!Seriously though, I do sympathise with people in your position. Airports should have been built away from residential areas, on the coast with departures straight towards the sea.This was the policy adopted with regard to nuclear power stations at their conception. Pollution is pollution regardless of its nature.