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Old November 8th 10, 10:19 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Phil Layton Phil Layton is offline
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Default WR Heathrow 8nov10

On 08/11/2010 21:08, terylene wrote:
is it that essential to land into the wind?

on dead calm days i dont see modern airliners having problems



The issue was that it was not dead calm. There was a tail wind of 25kts
at one point on the approach to 09L which made aircraft break off the
approaches..