Just as it has been recently covered by all the Tv channels, more and more airlines are facing some difficulties in order to get over the current financial crisis and they often reduce the quality of their services in order to be able to overcome the situation. Still, sometimes things tend to go wrong and that's exaclty what happened in London today as you can read from the msnbc.com article below:
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LONDON - The nosewheel of a British Airways passenger jet collapsed with a loud bang as the aircraft landed Friday at London City Airport, sending the plane scraping across the tarmac with 71 people aboard, officials and witnesses said.
All aboard escaped by emergency slides, but one person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury.
BA Flight 8456 was flying from Amsterdam to London when its front landing gear failed and the front wheel fell off.
"As a precaution the emergency slides were deployed and passengers were evacuated down the slides onto the runway," the airline said in a statement. "One passenger suffered a minor injury."
The airline said the Avro 146 RJ100 — made by BAE Systems — was carrying 67 passengers and four crew. London firefighters said accident happened around 8 p.m., and ambulance officials reported that four people were treated for minor injuries.
One of the passengers Ray Hamblin, said: "The front wheel collapsed, the cabin filled with smoke and everyone had to vacate from the rear of the plane. People were pretty calm at first but when the plane started to fill up with smoke, people were not moving fast enough and they got pretty fractious.
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"As I came off the emergency slide I hit my wrist on the runway. I think there are a couple of people with cuts and scrapes."
Justin Fletcher, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that "there was obviously quite a loud bang as the plane scratched in. The stewards and stewardesses were quick to evacuate everyone off. There was a few scrapes and cuts due to hitting the asphalt. All in all everyone seems to be doing quite well now."
