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Map of Heathrow Airport showing the original proposed extension and third runway; T1 and T2 operations have since merged into the new T2 terminal. In January 2009, the then Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that the UK government supported the expansion of Heathrow by building a third runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long serving a new passenger terminal, a hub for public and private ...
Heathrow Airport, 1955 Heathrow's central area under construction in April 1955. The control tower is in use; work proceeds on the Europa Building Heathrow in 1965. Nearest the camera are two BOAC aircraft – a Vickers VC10 (with the high tail) and a Boeing 707. Heathrow in the 1960s; Sabena Douglas DC-6 at front, Vickers Viscounts at rear
Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL) [6], also known as London Heathrow Airport and named London Airport until 1966, is the primary and largest international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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On 17 January 2008, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft operating the flight (registered as G-YMMM) crashed-landed short of the runway at Heathrow. [1] [2] [3] Of the 152 people on board, no fatalities resulted, but 47 people were injured, 1 of them seriously. [4] The aircraft was written off, becoming the first hull loss of a Boeing 777. [5] [6]
The climbing flight path along the extended runway centerline which begins at takeoff and continues to at least 1/2 mile beyond the runway's departure end and not less than 300 feet below the traffic pattern altitude. The names of the legs are logical and based on the relative wind as seen looking down a runway facing into the wind.
Inbound aircraft to London Heathrow Airport typically follow one of a number of Standard Arrival Routes (STARs The STARs each terminate at one of four different RNAV waypoints (co-located with VOR navigational aids), and these also define four "stacks" [1] where aircraft can be held, if necessary, until they are cleared to begin their approach to land.