Interesting Airline Rescue Operation By Tristar

[aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,
 

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

[PhrogPhlyer]

Brining history alive. Well done.

[beroun]

Have my experience with our Tristar. It had the greatest autopilot and even better autoland. Few runways had to be repaved because the Tristar with autoland always hit the runway in exactly the same spot. Great aircraft and we had few in our fleet. Yes I am ex British Airways.

[Rupert]

WONDERFUL POST  I have no knowledge of that aircraft or where it operated in or out of.   But obviously it was important to save the world as we now know it!

 

Michael

[aharon]

@Rupert

 

Thanks for your kind words

 

On 5/5/2023 at 7:06 PM, beroun said:

Have my experience with our Tristar. It had the greatest autopilot and even better autoland. Few runways had to be repaved because the Tristar with autoland always hit the runway in exactly the same spot.  Yes I am ex British Airways.

 

@beroun,

 

Thank for your kind words and thanks for your amazing facts about the runway problems

 

@PhrogPhlyer

 

Thanks for your kind words

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

[Macroburst]

Aharon,

Very well done recreation of aviation history.  You may have some stirring with "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!". Lockheed & Rolls had a fair amount of heartache together which rolled into the British government, bank loans, and competition with McDonnell Douglas MD-10. That's before Airbus rolled that up with the A-310.

On a personal note, I have very good memories in business class in and out of Rio in the 10-11.  

Enjoyed your work!

[Bwoinbeerr]

Shalom Aharon, lovely shots and great backstory!

[aharon]

@Macroburstand @Bwoinbeerr,

 

Thank you for your kind words.

 

Macroburst,  good to hear from you! Thanks for interesting history explanations

 

Regards,

 

Aharon