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Plane Carrying Queen Elizabeth's Coffin Arrives In London

Queen Elizabeth Death: The plane landed at Northolt, where PM Liz Truss was among the group of military and civic figures to receive it.

13 September 2022 · 22:21 UTC

The Royal Air Force plane carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II arrived in London on Tuesday after being flown from Edinburgh, accompanied by her daughter Princess Anne.

The C-17 Globemaster plane, recently used for aid missions in Ukraine, arrived at the Northolt airbase at 6:54 pm (1754 GMT) ahead of her funeral in the British capital on Monday.