Thomas Cook are the only UK airline to have the -300 variety (I’ve been on both and will be getting one again on Wednesday).

It says on the ticket that it is a B753, and I’m going next week, which is still part of the winter season. I’m guaranteed a plane I’ve had before (I’ve had both -AA and -AB before) and I love the 753, so it should be good. I guessed it’d probably be a 753 by the timing of the flight, and the fact the turnaround in FUE is 1 hour 10 minutes (752s have a 1 hour turnaround).

I have just returned from LHR – the aircraft was, as indicated a Boeing 777.

Police there told me that the aircraft lost power to both engines about 2 miles out from the airport and glided in the rest of the way – narrowly missing the 27l landing lights. The aircraft has lost the front gear and one of its main gears as well as at least one of the engines.

I have photos from the incident which i took whilst there – to be posted soon.

That does sound very serious, and possibly a WFU for that 777, which would be a real shame, but as other people have said, it could have been much worse than what has actually happened.

I’ve been thinking it was only a matter of time before EZY opened a MAN base, and when they took over GB Airways, I thought that’d leave them open to opening the base at MAN, and this only confirms my suspicions. It’s good that they’re opening other routes at MAN, so they’re not directly competing with EZY at LPL.

Some nice shots there Grey, the CX Cargo is my favourite…good comparison of size against the biz-jet in the foreground!

That Binter Canarias 737 looks nice as well, but what was it doing at MAN, do they operate to/from the UK now?

No, Binter Canarias still operate flights between the islands solely, but the 737 is used by Futura (I think) on a Saturday flight, from LPA I think. The rest of the week, it is also used on inter island flights.

Btw, nice shots Lance, I like the MON and CX ones best.

I got a B in Law, C in English Language, and Ds in Business Studies and General Studies. The combined total is enough to get me into Bangor which was my first choice university.

G-TCBA seems to be effectively permanently based at EMA, so there isn’t much chance of you getting it. I think it occasionally goes to other bases, but all the photos on the net seem to have it either at EMA, or operating a holiday flight to/from EMA.