British Airways Plane Engulfed in Flames at Las Vegas
159 passengers on board, 13 crew. All got out via the emergency slides at ~30 seconds into the video. Only minor injuries. The plane can hold about 100 passengers more than that, so that was likely a huge help.
I have no idea, but it was an aborted takeoff, and it's 40°C there. So it could be they aborted for something else and heavy braking led to this.
Based on this pic of the aftermath, the video kinda makes it look worse than it was. Significant damage, obviously, but it looks mostly contained to the left side main landing gear or engine.
I have no idea, but it was an aborted takeoff, and it's 40°C there. So it could be they aborted for something else and heavy braking led to this.
Based on this pic of the aftermath, the video kinda makes it look worse than it was. Significant damage, obviously, but it looks mostly contained to the left side main landing gear or engine.
Yeah, on an aborted takeoff it was likely a fire on the left main, looks like the engine is only scorched on the inboard side.
Good thing the engine failed catastrophically on the roll instead of the air.
Oh FFS, everyone's got their bags.
They're all morons of course, but it's further evidence fire didn't penetrate the fuselage. In evacuations it takes for people's asses to literally be on fire for them to not grab their carry on.
It'll take for people to die/suffer serious injury for them institute a heavy fine for anyone who grabs their bag.
Pilot says catastrophic engine failure. Of note is that this General Electric engine is a lower power variant of the engines that are on all 23 of Air Canada's 777, one of which has already had a substantial failure. So they'll be paying attention.
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Well relatively speaking, he's right. Whether or not they are the fault of the 777 itself (Asiana no, MH17 no, MH370 we dunno) but after being pretty untouched, things aren't going well for the 777 in a relatively short span of time.
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Originally Posted by JonDuke
It blows my mind that it took that long to deploy the slides.
Just texted an FA and asked her this, confirmed what I was thinking. You want to make sure you know exactly where the fire is so you don't pop a slide and jump into fire. Based on the after pic you can see they nailed it. Popped them all except the 2L door which is where the fire was.
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Just texted an FA and asked her this, confirmed what I was thinking. You want to make sure you know exactly where the fire is so you don't pop a slide and jump into fire. Based on the after pic you can see they nailed it. Popped them all except the 2L door which is where the fire was.
Funny...I edited that before seeing your reply.
I should've know on a rejected takeoff, you'd also want to wait until the engines slowed down a bit first too before popping the slides.
British Airways Plane Engulfed in Flames at Las Vegas
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