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The second episode of the series looking behind the scenes at Heathrow Airport, revealing the people, systems and science that keep us flying. Kate Humble is in the air traffic control tower, where... controllers handle some 1,400 landings and departures every day. Dallas Campbell learns to hand-marshal a plane on the tarmac, and Anita Rani finds out how Heathrow trains to deal with extreme weather. Plus the programme follows, live, a shorthaul flight turnaround. The plane has just 45 minutes from landing until it takes off again.
The second episode of the series looking behind the scenes at Heathrow Airport, revealing the people, systems and science that keep us flying. Kate Humble is in the air traffic control tower, where... controllers handle some 1,400 landings and departures every day. Dallas Campbell learns to hand-marshal a plane on the tarmac, and Anita Rani finds out how Heathrow trains to deal with extreme weather. Plus the programme follows, live, a shorthaul flight turnaround. The plane has just 45 minutes from landing until it takes off again.
| Series: | Airport live |
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| Episode | 2 |
| First transmission date: | 18-06-2013 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
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| Producer: | Sarah Gibbs |
| Presenters: | Dallas Campbell; Anita Rani; Dallas Campbell |
| Contributors: | Paula Abbott; Dallas Campbell; Derek Cogswell; Adrian Dolan; Steffen Gemsa; Paul Haskins; Frank Holzaepfel; Kate Humble; Steph Kelly; Simon Newbold; Glen Palmer; Anita Rani; Dave Thomas |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018t3xg OU Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-airport-live |
| Production number: | FKAC165X |
| Videofinder number: | 83960 |
| Available to public: | no |
