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18-05-2012, 15:34
'The Olympic flame is on the plane and ready to be flown from Athens to the UK for the start of the 2012 torch relay.
The flight is due to arrive at an air base in Cornwall on Friday evening, in time to be at Land's End on Saturday for the start of its 8,000-mile relay.
Footballer David Beckham, Princess Anne and Lord Coe, chairman of Games organisers Locog, are on the plane.
Flight BA2012, a gold-colour plane named Firefly, lands just before 19:30BST at RNAS Culdrose.
A welcome celebration takes place at on Friday evening.
On Saturday morning the flame will be flown by helicopter the 25 miles to Land's End for the start of the 70-day torch relay around the UK.
From there, triple Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Ben Ainslie will be the first of 8,000 torchbearers who will carry it across the country.
The torch visits the four nations of the UK before being taken to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford on 27 July for the opening ceremony of the Games.
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London 2012 Olympic torch relay
Torch relay graphic'
BBC
Watch its progress below
http://planefinder.net/flight/BAW2012
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The flight is due to arrive at an air base in Cornwall on Friday evening, in time to be at Land's End on Saturday for the start of its 8,000-mile relay.
Footballer David Beckham, Princess Anne and Lord Coe, chairman of Games organisers Locog, are on the plane.
Flight BA2012, a gold-colour plane named Firefly, lands just before 19:30BST at RNAS Culdrose.
A welcome celebration takes place at on Friday evening.
On Saturday morning the flame will be flown by helicopter the 25 miles to Land's End for the start of the 70-day torch relay around the UK.
From there, triple Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Ben Ainslie will be the first of 8,000 torchbearers who will carry it across the country.
The torch visits the four nations of the UK before being taken to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford on 27 July for the opening ceremony of the Games.
Continue reading the main story
London 2012 Olympic torch relay
Torch relay graphic'
BBC
Watch its progress below
http://planefinder.net/flight/BAW2012
Added after 18 minutes:
Speedbird 2012 (British airways) can currently be heard over Greece here http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=lggg
http://img.tapatalk.com/50074abc-6ec8-9073.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/50074abc-6ed7-0e5d.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/50074abc-6ee4-b9d4.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/50074abc-6ef0-d00a.jpg
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Added after 55 minutes:
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I have just heard the rumble of the plane going over my house
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