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[dbdb]

Speaking of Stanstead, having seen the flight path map, why on earth didn't the pilot land there instead? Rather than return to Heathrow further away over a much more densely populated area...?

If you go to http://planefinder.net/, click 'playback', set the date and time to 24/05/13 08:15 and speed to, say,  x10, you'll see BAW762  take off at about 8:20, fly at 6000 feet above the m25 to near Basildon then fly back right across central London.  It lands then all the other planes scatter from the screen.

[Kevin Wood]

Speaking of Stanstead, having seen the flight path map, why on earth didn't the pilot land there instead? Rather than return to Heathrow further away over a much more densely populated area...?

If you go to http://planefinder.net/, click 'playback', set the date and time to 24/05/13 08:15 and speed to, say,  x10, you'll see BAW762  take off at about 8:20, fly at 6000 feet above the m25 to near Basildon then fly back right across central London.  It lands then all the other planes scatter from the screen.

Yep, you can see the aircraft in front of it on final approach did a go-around (well, more of a "go-away", I guess) quite late in the proceedings. I wonder if this was the point where the starboard engine threw its' toys out of the pram and he upgraded his "pan" to an emergency?