Inside British Airways abandoned training centre with full Boeing 747 simulator

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British Airways has been left to rot, with full simulators left inside.The Cranebank centre was where around 17,000 cabin crew and 4,000 pilots learned to train before it closed in 2016.It was replaced for the £10 million British Airways Global Learning Academy, but it appears that not much from the old site was repurposed for the new one.Urban Explorers Hell on Earth managed to get into the site earlier this month, and found fully kitted out training simulators still on-site, as well as manuals and floppy disks explaining how to fly a plane.

And in one section of the site, the cockpit and part of the passenger section of a Boeing 747 were found, looking like all they needed was a good clean-up before it was ready for use again.The site was easily accessible, but it was made clear by the group that security were patrolling once every hour.They also came across classrooms covered in mould and moss, while a goldmine of old communication equipment was seen in one of the rooms.Overall, the group came across at least three huge simulators, potentially worth millions of pounds sitting around being left to rot.Parts of the site were allegedly used during the pandemic period for storage, but the future of the site remains unknown.In 2021, an airline insider told the Sun: “It's a spooky scene inside the former BA training centre.“It's a sad sight, and unbelievable that Cranebank was seemingly abandoned overnight.“It could be a scene from a post-apocalyptic action movie; with the once bustling hub abandoned overnight.“It is a real shame the simulators and other equipment were not given away to charity or museums.“The millions of passengers passing through Heathrow in recent years would have no idea this lies at the beating heart.