Stranded on Air India 131 for Nine Hours

Along with over 100 other passengers, I was stranded on AI 131 – the Air India flight from Mumbai to London yesterday for nine hours [...]

Travel Nightmare on Air India Flight 131

Weather conditions forced the Air India flight to divert and park at a different airport for eight hours.

Snow still halts travel at Heathrow

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Thousands of passengers remain stranded at London’s Heathrow airport since a snowstorm hit the area last Saturday. Other European airports, however, have managed to keep planes moving despite the snow. That’s prompted the question – why can’t Heathrow? Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Tom Hall, a travel editor with the Lonely Planet. Download MP3

Hero Pilot: ‘I thought I was going to die’

In his first media interview, the pilot of a British Airways jet which crash landed at London’s Heathrow airport two years ago has described the moment he thought would die. Captain Peter Burkill’s jet plane lost power in the final seconds of its approach to land. Captain Burkill describes how in the space of five seconds his prediction for the imminent hard-landing changed from 100% casualties to 50%. In the event, there was only one serious injury, and Captain Burkill and his crew were hailed as heroes.

• BBC story with video

Rebranding

Flying can be the quickest way to travel. Until you discover the airport you’re arriving in is actually nowhere near your final destination. For today’s Geo Quiz we’re looking at airports near London.

Castle Building Gets Medieval, Bertrand Piccard, and GPS Atari Art

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On this week’s show, castle builders in France use medieval technologies and techniques to build a castle…from scratch. Also, we have an interview with Bertrand Piccard, who wants to one day fly a solar-powered plane, non-stop, around the world. And we end with one podcast listener’s amazing art project. He and his buddies use GPS and their bikes to make geo-spatial art!

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