We can confirm that flight BA038, a Boeing 777 arriving from Beijing, carried out an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport today at 12.42. Heathrow’s emergency services attended the scene. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is attending the scene.
BAA is doing everything possible to minimise disruption to our passengers.
Passengers flying from Heathrow today should contact their airline regarding the status of their flight. Air traffic control is diverting some arriving flights to other airports on a flight by flight basis.
British Airways has issued a helpline for anybody concerned about family and friends: 0800 389 4193.
After a seven-year and 3.2 billion km journey from Earth to Saturn, ESA’s Huygens probe, travelling on board NASA’s Cassini mother craft and powered through an umbilical cable, is now ready to separate and continue its journey alone toward Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
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View the overhaul of Avro Vulcan XH558 in the hangar at Bruntingthorpe Airfield in Leicestershire, UK.
If you would like to help get this magnificent aircraft in the air again, then click here.
Click here to go to the openATC website where you can incorporate truly worldwide flight tracking into Google Earth.
openATC (Open Air Traffic Control) is a worldwide network of ADS-B receiver stations, permitting anyone to see where airplanes were located 5 minutes ago. Look at it as Air Traffic gone Open Source!
This system can be used to visualize both in 2D and 3D the flight paths of any flight we ever recorded. Applications range from flight training to air traffic control training, positional awareness for dispatchers and last but not least, the enthusiast that wants to track flights.
Live Radio on the Internet is the UK's most visited live radio site, and also the largest directory available of working links to radio stations broadcasting live on the Internet. It differs from other sites of this type, as it concentrates on live audio, and instead of simply adding link after link in an attempt to have the largest collection, Live Radio on the Internet is actually maintained, and as well as adding links (links are not added unless they work!), those which no longer work are removed (within 4 weeks so as to allow the station(s) time to restore their audio).
Click here for a list of radio stations from the United Kingdom.
Do you want to know when your favourite television programme is coming on TV?
Then just type in the name of the programme in the search box below.
For a complete listing of television programmes (BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Ch.4, Ch.5, Sky etc) then click on the UKTVGuide logo below.
UK Military Bases including Maps & Aerial views from Multimap.Com.
Click on the picture on the right for links to UK military bases, detailed maps, aerial views and overlays.
The maps and aerial views allow you to zoom in and out and are supplied by Multimap.Com.
To find out the distance to a base and the quickest/shortest route then click here.
The Multimap.Com maps also include information on the nearest train station, motorway exit, and airport.