英航飞机降落时冲出跑道

A British Airways (BA) passenger jet landed short of the runway at Heathrow Airport Thursday.

The emergency escape chutes were used and passengers were led to safety, Sky News reported.

Three passengers are being treated for minor injuries, the report said.

Heathrow Airport's southern runway has been closed to incoming and outgoing flights.

The plane was BA flight 38 from Beijing to London, the report said.

Six ambulances were dispatched and emergency services remain at the scene.

"We can confirm that BA Flight 38 arriving from Beijing made an emergency landing at 12:42 p.m. (1242 GMT). Passengers have been evacuated," said an airport spokeswoman.

"The south runway is closed but the north runway is still operating," she added.

The plane landed just meters from a busy perimeter road, and the impact wrecked its undercarriage and caused extensive damage to both wings, Britain's Press Association reported.

"The plane's wheels collapsed, doors were flown open. It crashed into the runway, debris was flying everywhere, there was an enormous bang and it skidded sideways," eyewitness John Rowland was quoted by the BBC as saying.

"There were some sparks as the undercarriage or the bottom of the plane actually touched the runway -- certainly a huge amount of smoke coming up from that. And then the plane did come to a halt reasonably quickly," said Nick Gray, another eyewitness.

"It was incredibly efficient the speed that people got off the aircraft. I could see that the shoots were deployed very quickly and people were coming down on that. Then people were sent off to the nearby buildings which are probably only about 200 yards away from the plane," he said.

A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard police headquarters said there was no suggestion that terrorism was involved in the incident.

"There is nothing to suggest it is terror-related," she said.

The incident happened as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was due to leave Heathrow for visit in China and India.

His flight, which was delayed a short while because of the incident, has left the Heathrow airport for China.

英国天空新闻电周四一架英航客机在希思罗机场降落时冲出跑道.紧急逃生滑梯被启用,乘客安全撤离,三人轻伤被送往治疗.
希罗机场南跑道已对过往飞机关闭.出事飞机是北京飞往伦敦的BA38.
现场来了六部消防车,紧急服务也在现场就位.
一位机场女发言人说"可以肯定的是BA38由北京飞来,下午12:42紧急迫降(格林尼治时间1242),乘客都已被疏散,"她补充说,"南跑道关闭了可北跑道仍在运行."
英国联合报社报道,飞机在偏离跑道仅数米的地方降落,起落架损坏,两翼大面积受损.
目击者约翰.罗兰接受BBC采访时称"当时轮子全掉下来了,门还开着,然后就撞在跑道上,碎片到处飞,飞机发出巨大的'砰'的一声,斜着向前滑行."
另一位目击者尼克.格雷说:"起落架或飞机底部接触到跑道时浓烟升起,还可以看见火星,然后飞机极快地停下来.""人们离开飞机的速度快得让人难以置信,我只看见救援人员很快被部署好,然后人们从上面下来,人群被送到就近的建筑物里,离飞机有200码的样子."他说.
苏格兰警备总部一位女发言人说没有迹象表明此次事件与恐怖主义有关.
她说:"没有迹象说明与恐怖分子有关."
事件发生时,英国首相布朗正要从希思罗机场飞往中国和印度访问.他所乘坐的航班由于该事件被稍许延误,现已从希思罗机场飞往中国.