Some closure....

The 777 was sitting in front of the big US shed at5.00pm today. G-VIIY an early
GE90 powered machine was hard to see under the overcast sky. Anyhow patience is
a virtue and I sat under the clouds for two hours spotting without pics, boo,
sniffle. Then the sun came out and bathed the airpot in soft evening light. 30
more minutes I thought and I must go.

At 7.20pm the Ba 777 started to move and to my good fortune taxiied the length
of 36C to take off on 18C. Wow, to coin one of JP's phrases I didn't shoot it I
killed it.

BA are flying the beast KCLT to EGLL (London Heathrow) as flight BA9163, EMPTY!

It must have been an expensive flight for BA.

I have uploaded an image in the photos/vc10er section of this site , I hope you
enjoy it as much as I did. She sounded great LOL!

Lyndon














--- In PlaneSpottingCLT@yahoogroups.com, Jay Selman <aviation.writer@...> wrote:
>
> Yup, ATL was taking extensive ATC delays and it diverted into CLT...and
> canceled. The crew ran out of time.
> BA is ferrying in a brake rider from ATL so we can get the plane off the
> gate. BA is sending a rep down to help with the passengers, who were put up
> at hotels. We are organizing a convoy of busses to get these happy campers
> down to ATL. Meanwhile, a new flight crew will eventually get here to ferry
> the plane back to LHR.
>
> Just another day in paradise...
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Chaz Hinkle <chazzer@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > I know they did have some weather down in that area yesterday... I would
> > guess that was the issue...
> >
> > On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Lyndon Thorley wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking at FlyteComm this morning shows that a BA772 visited CLT last
> > evening it was routing London - Atlanta and arrived in CLT around 7.40pm.
> >
> > About an hour later a DL763 also arrived in CLT it was routing New York -
> > ATL.
> >
> > Does anyone have any more info as to why they were here? Was there a
> > problem in ATL?
> >
> > Lyndon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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