Wednesday 9 September 2015

British Airways Flight BA2276 Incident

British Airways G-VIIO seen in Las Vegas, USA 31st August 2015 9 days before the fire.

8th September 2015 a British Airways Boeing 777 flight BA2276 to London Gatwick, UK from Las Vegas, USA has caught fire at 16:12 Pacific Time on runway 07L the pilots called a "catastrophic engine failure" only 14 people have been injured taken to hospital for minor injuries and possibly burn marks. All passengers and crew have evacuated safely with evacuation slides. The main course of the fire was the #1 engine failure on the left General Electric GE90 it suffered the fuselage and the wing rooted from the fire. The aircraft G-VIIO was a Boeing 777-200 new to British Airways in January 26th 1999 only 16.6 years old .

More news, images and videos can be found on the Daily Mail website. 

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