‘Heathrow ATC’ The First 50 Years’ by Brian Piket and Pete Bish has a list of accidents at Heathrow…these listed below are additional to those mentioned already in this thread

7/47 York G-AIUP Over-ran 23L onto Duke of northumberland’s river, 4 s/injured
10/49 Grumman Mallard NC2956 Crashed and burned on take-off, 6 fatalities, 1 injured
10/50 BEA Viking G-AHPN Overshooting after GCA approach attempt on 28R (diversion from Northolt), crashed and burned ,28 fatalities of 30 on board
1/55 BEA Viscount G-AMOK Hit barrier attempting takeoff on disused RWY 15(L?), considerably damaged but no injuries
6/55 DH Dove G-ALTM Crashed short of RWY 10R when pilot shut down wrong engine
12/60 BOAC 707 G-APFN Overran RWY 23L after landing nearly halfway down it and attempting a 100deg turn onto RWY33, gear collapsed, no injuries
3/67 BOAC 707 G-APFP Landed with nose gear locked up, friction fire extinguished rapidly by AFS, no fatalities
1/70 Viscount G-AWXI Emergency return to RWY 28R when engine caught fire, extinguished by AFS but I passenger seriously injured in evacuation
3/78 Boeing 720B TF-VLB(Aer Lingus flight) Nose gear collapse after landing bounce on runway
12/79 Pan Am 747 N 771PA No4 engine partially broke away on hard landing, potentially serious wing fire extinguished by AFS, No injuries noted but a/c needed substantial repair
9/80 Pan Am DC-10 N83NA Aborted take off onRWY 28R, localized brake fires extinguished by AFS, 1 passenger broke leg evacuating
5/81 HS 125 G-BISU Substantially damaged landing with left landing gear locked up
11/97 Virgin A340-300 G-VSKY Skillful emergency landing with left main gear only partly extended RWY 27L, 7 minor injuries on evacuation

Approximately 16 landing gear collapses/incidents also listed and 6 ground wide body collisions listed

EGTC… No pics of 23L landings , unfortunately

Perhaps there should be an Airline History subsection! No harm in someone being thorough, though 🙂
Lufthansa got their 727s into Heathrow as early as May 1964 I read and rapidly got rid of their overpowered 720Bs. There was a maintenance sharing agreement between SAS Swissair and KLM based on Douglas equipment which kept the 727 out of those markets and the attachment to the Caravelle and DC-9 in the other lines delayed the adoption of the 727 as you say, VeeOne
Olympic was an early customer for the -200, too (seen landing on LHR 05:))

The 727 was used across the Atlantic wasn’t it, by Icelandair (or was Loftleidir)?

The 727 which was developed under Joe Sutter’s leadership had sophisticated high-lift devices on its wing so it could operate into fields used by Convair liners and DC-6Bs (crucially La Guardia, New York) which also made it suitable for Pan Am’s services into Berlin-Templehof.

Pan Am also equipped and crewed the Ariana Afghan 727 pictured which crashed 2 miles short of the runway at Gatwick Jan 1969
http://www.gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk/YA-FAR.asp

Northwest at LHR

Damn shame about the pilot’s suicide! Didn’t know that

Northwest Orient had just started a through-plane deal with Pan Am from Minneapolis…I think they switched crews at Chicago or on the East Coast…think I mentioned a similar set-up with Delta on your DC-8 thresd

Hi Longshot. That 747 that almost hit the hotels was flown by the captain alone as the first officer was ill. He established on the false localiser which took him down the ILS slightly to the right of the true localiser. Very low cloud meant he only popped out into VMC tens of feet above the hotels. The CAA and the press hounded him with talk of imprisonment even though it was British Airways’ policy to pressure crews to take flights out whatever problems the crew had. This pilot committed suicide due to the pressure and the ignominous end to his career. Sad. Because despite the ILS error he performed as a top pilot under impossible conditions and saved the day. I blame BA.

What was Northwest Orient doing at Heathrow. I do recall their red fins and silver bodies at that time. Were they flying for TWA or PanAm?

Use of RWY 05 Heathrow

The Piket and Bish book on Heathrow ATC has a section on the difficulties of using 05. I managed to get a few shots from the earth mound by the Air India hangar of its use in 1971 and Kjell Nilsson got a nice shot of a BA 747 in 1977 (from top of T2?)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-747-136/0282437/L/

Thatb was the TCA DC-8 that ran off 28R into a Colnbrook cabbage field Nov 1963 see
http://www.400scalehangar.net/forums/showthread.php?t=47751
and
http://greyjumper.blogspot.com/2009/01/air-crash-at-heathrow-1963.html

Don’t know about the Air India Super Connie , but a Lufthansa Boeing almost landed at NHT in 1964

Tupolev types

Tu-104 LHR 1973

Tu-134 LHR 1975

Tu-144 nose-down LBG 1975

Tu-144 nose-up LBG 1975

Tu-154 Egyptair LHR 1973

Tu-154 Malev LHR 1975

Tu-154 Pulkovo LHR December 2002 from the last remaining balcony of ‘Queens Building/T2 Roof Enclosure

Are the authorities relaxed about aircraft photography at Delhi or do you get trouble?