First plane touches down at new Heathrow terminal

The new £4.3bn (€5.5bn) Terminal 5 has opened for business at London's Heathrow Airport today, with the first plane landing eight minutes early.

First plane touches down at new Heathrow terminal

The new £4.3bn (€5.5bn) Terminal 5 has opened for business at London's Heathrow Airport today, with the first plane landing eight minutes early.

Under the command of British Airways' first woman pilot Captain Lynn Barton, 51, the BA flight from Hong Kong touched down at 4.42am - the first of 380 planes to use the terminal on its first day.

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