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The older Airbus A340-300 aircraft were withdrawn from service in April 2015, as rising costs had made it less economical to run the type. Virgin Atlantic had begun to replace the A340-300 on routes with the two-engine A330-300 and 787-9. The final Virgin Atlantic A340-300 flight was made on 9 April, landing at Heathrow early on 10 April. [30]
13 February – BA CityFlyer Flight 8456 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to London City Airport. It was operated by Avro RJ100 G-BXAR. On landing at London City, the nose gear collapsed. All 72 people on board evacuated by the emergency escape slides. The aircraft was damaged beyond economic repair. [161]
Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 was a regularly scheduled Virgin Atlantic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. On 5 November 1997, the Airbus A340 was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.
The Virgin Boeing 787-9 plane had completed a flight and was being towed to a different part of the airfield with no passengers on board at the time of the incident, it is understood.
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A Virgin Atlantic flight was forced to return to London after the windshield of the Boeing 787 aircraft cracked mid-flight. Virgin flight VS41 from London Heathrow to San Francisco was turned ...
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between ...