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VS026 Diverted
Posted:
11 Aug 2008, 13:56by gnjb
Anyone know why VS026 was diverted to Gatwick last night? Seems it was at Gatwick for about an hour; hardly seems the effort. Maybe they swapped planes!
GNJB.
Posted:
11 Aug 2008, 14:13by McMaddog
It was a fire alarm at LHR control tower. Closed LHR for a while and then re-opened with only 1 runway.
the SIA A380 was also diverted to LGW, then had to short hop over to LHR a while later.
I think VS diverted 2 A346s
Posted:
11 Aug 2008, 14:32by ade99
Yeh 2 VS ac diverted in along with the SIA A380 which sat at the end of the field for a couple of hours. Also some others came in a few BMI flights and the Jet Airways flight also diverted in.
Apparently they were diverting all over the place some as far as Birmingham but the heavies tended to divert into LGW
Posted:
11 Aug 2008, 15:30by gnjb
Thanks, that probably explains why my boss is in at work today as he was due to go out of LHR to Copenhagen last night.
GNJB.