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 | A worker inside the wrecked engine of the British Airways plane which crash-landed, on Thursday, short of the runway talks to workers on the ground as they prepare to recover the plane at Heathrow Airport, London, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. The Boeing 777, which suffered engine failure before landing at Britain's largest airport on Thursday, had remained on the edge of one of the runways while it was examined by crash investigators. An initial inquiry found all had gone normally with the Beijing to London flight until the aircraft was just two miles (three kilometers) from touchdown and at a height of 600 feet (180 meters). The plane, with 136 passengers and 16 crew on board, crash landed on grass just inside the airport's perimeter. Co-pilot John Coward, who landed the aircraft, told a newspaper he worried the plane would fail to reach the airport  click to open  |
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