Allow me to present you an interesting aviation history on how Eastern airline's plane came to rescue for the island of Jersey near England. The island was hit twice by extremely bad fog that forced the EGJJ Jersey airport to shut down twice which resulted into thousands of Heathrow bound passengers stranding in the airport or on the island and same numbers of Jersey bound passengers stranded in Heathrow.
British Airways decided to come rescue to solve the massive backlog of stranded passengers by selecting two Lockheed L1011s to clear out backlog. Two out of many L1011s in the British Airways fleet got the assignments. The British Airways registration numbers are N323EA and G-BBAF meaning that if you notice the first registration number, you would realize it is Eastern Airlines plane on lease to British Airways!!!
Presenting rescue mission flight from EGLL Heathrow Airport located 14 miles west of center of London to EGJJ Jersey Airport located 4.6 miles west northwest of Saint Helier in island of Jersey which is part of Channel Islands.
100 stranded Jersey island bound passengers boarding the plane at Heathrow. British Airways was not allowed to load more than 100 passengers into their L1011 with 300 passenger capacity due to strict weight restrictions concerning landings on EGJJ Jersey airport
Jetway disconnecting from the plane
Finished with pushback
Check out view of Rolls Royce engine!!! If you cannot afford to buy Rolls Royce car, least you can own Rolls Royce engines in your flight sim!
Check out Eastern Airlines registration number!!
You can see engine smoke spewing from engine as result of starting engines
Starting to taxi to short of runway 27R
Still taxiing with background view of giant fuel tanks
Still taxiing yep Heathrow airport is massive big and taxiing can be long time!
More taxiing
Finally arriving short of runway 27R asking Heathrow airport tower for take off clearance
Look at the British Airways maintenance hangars in background
Yes what do you expect from busy Heathrow airport?? You gonna have to wait for while to get take off clearance!
Still waiting short of runway 27R
Finally time to take off as the plane entering into runway 27R to start take off roll!
Airborne on climb to FL190 retracting the landing gear
On climb past famous Thames River seen on right side of the plane and past Maidenhead Road also know as route number A308 seen on left side of left wing where you can see two buildings under the wing's red beacon which are Centrica building and British Gas building.
Passing through clouds during climb to FL190
Making left turn toward east on way to the island
Passing EGLF Farnborough Airport located in Farnborough, Hampshire, England which is the site of very famous annual air
shows
Close up view of the same airport where you can see Motorway route number M3 behind the tail of the plane
Cruising at FL190 past very rich green pastures of England
Cruising past nice puffs of clouds
Passing EGHI Southampton Airport located 3.5 nautical miles northeast of central Southampton where you can see Motorway route number M27 under the front of the plane
Cruising past River Itchen where you can see Itchen Toll Bridge also known as route number A3025 on left side of front of the plane and Northam Bridge also known as route number A3035 behind right wing of the plane
Leaving England to start crossing English Channel
Cruising across the famed Channel which signals time to descend!
Descending through clouds
Entering into another cloud
Exiting from cloud
At 5,000 ft above French shore
At 4,000 ft flying past LFRC Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport located 11 km east of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
You can see island of Jersey looming ahead in front of the plane nose
At 3,000 time to make right turn toward runway 26
On final runway approach deploying landing gear
Seconds before touchdown
TOUCHDOWN and starting very deep braking due to runway too short for the widebody plane
Front landing wheels gliding slowly in most graceful manner
Front wheel making runway contact
Reverse thrusters roaring to brake down deeply
Exiting from runway to taxiway on way to parking spot
Still taxiing
Arriving at PRECISELY same parking spot as it happened in real
life as seen on the photo below (new building in front of the old building is in the screenshot)
Here is photo of specific parking spot for the Tristar where you can see same old building in both screenshot and photo
You can see photos of luggages piling up due to backlog caused by
the fogs that happened twice
You can see about 300 stranded Heathrow bound passengers
boarding the plane via special modified stairs
Newspaper announcing rescue of stranded passengers
Thank you for viewing and stay tuned for next exciting flight
Regards,
Aharon
