Are Boeing busy with 777? Two dead engines & possible fire in separate incidents in London. + B747 sink checks

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One year on and investigators still have no answers to Boeing 777 incident

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View GalleryBy Murdo MacLeod

ACCIDENT investigators are still probing a previous incident involving a Boeing 777 at Heathrow, which took place almost a year before Thursday's crash-landing.

A team from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is probing a fire in the electrical system of a United Airlines Boeing 777 which stopped the plane taking off last February.

The wreckage of flight BA038 is expected to be removed from the southern runway at Heathrow Airport this morning.

The British Airways Boeing 777 crash-landed after its engines failed on Thursday afternoon – with all 136 passengers and 16 crew escaping from the flight from Beijing.

Senior first officer John Coward, under the command of Captain Peter Burkill, averted disaster by landing the craft just within Heathrow's boundary fence following the malfunction.

In last year's incident, the flight-deck instrument displays flickered, and the crew heard an "abnormal noise" and smelled electrical burning. Smoke was seen to be coming out of the aircraft.

When investigators checked the plane, they found evidence of heat damage and fire in the electrical system of the aircraft.

In an interim report published in April, the investigators said that they needed to continue their probe in order to study how the fire spread. Their probe is ongoing.

Iain Findlay, an aviation consultant, said: "This could be significant, although it's very early to say one way or the other. The fact is that the Boeing 777 has a very good safety record."

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said that airlines would not ground all their 777s unless it became clear that the fault which caused the crash-landing on Thursday might be present in other planes.

An Air France source said that their experts were studying the information coming from the Heathrow probe, but that it was too early to say whether their 777s would be grounded. Air France operates more than 40 of the aircraft.

Crash investigators are due to move the 209ft, 142,900kg plane today and continue their research into the incident from the eastern BA hangars at Heathrow Airport.

The AAIB's preliminary report into Thursday's incident – which left 18 of the 136 passengers needing treatment, including one with a broken leg – is due out in 30 days.

The body said its investigation was now focused on "more detailed analysis of the flight-recorder information, collecting further recorded information from various system modules and examining the range of aircraft systems that could influence engine operation".

The decision to move the plane followed a day of normal services at Heathrow, with the British Airports Authority reporting a "modest" 38 cancellations.

Answer 1

A city in Germany--that's your name.

Answer 2

Do you honestly expect a company to freak out as badly as you have simply because something "almost" went wrong?

Should we  put GM out of business because people might run red lights in their vehicles?

Should we stop making knives because someone might accidentally cut themselves with them?

Should we ban water because a child might drown in the bathtub?

Seriously.  You don't understand this industry at all.  There is absolutely NO WAY to reduce risk to zero.  It cannot happen.  It will never happen.  If you are too much of a coward to fly, don't.  The rest of us are serious professionals.  We take our jobs seriously and it becomes a personal affront whenever someone insults us.  It becomes an insult when that person is as obviously ignorant as you.  I don't go to your place of employment and insult the manufacturers of the paper clips you use, nor do I constantly harass you and degradate your ability to file a TPS report.

The simple fact is...it was an accident.  And answers sometimes take time to come by.  The answer will be found, and al appropriate steps will be taken in order to alleviate the danger of it happening again.  Get over it.

Answer 3

i think Boeing jets are safe jets The Boeing 717 has not had a accident

Boeing was the first company to allow their twin engine to have  ETOPS (Extended Range Twin Engines Operations ) with The Boeing 767



besides the boeing 777 has a record of making a capabile landing and no one has been killed

Here's some infomation of some incident's with the Boeing 777  from wikipedia everybody on board these's incident's survived

The only known fatality involving a Boeing 777 occurred in a refueling fire at Denver International Airport On September 5, 2001, during which a ground worker sustained fatal burns.[46] Although the aircraft's wings were badly scorched, it was repaired and put back into service with British Airways.

On October 18, 2002, An Air France Boeing 777-200 on route from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Churchill, Manitoba when a small fire broke out by the front left windshield in the cockpit. Interestingly, passengers in rows 42-44 were the first to notice the odour and alert the flight crew. The aircraft dumped fuel over Hudson Bay before landing at Churchill. Because Churchill's airport does not regularly handle aircraft the size of a 777-200 the passengers deplaned using the slides.[47]

On August 24, 2004, A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-312 had an engine explosion on takeoff at Melbourne Airport. This was due to erosion of the high pressure compression liners in the Rolls-Royce engines.[48]

On March 1, 2005, after a PIA Boeing 777-200ER landed at Manchester International Airport, England, fire was seen around the left main landing gear. The crew and passengers were evacuated and fire was put under control. Some passengers suffered minor injuries and the aircraft sustained minor damage.[49]

On August 1, 2005, Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, a 777-200ER had instruments showing conflicting reports of low airspeed on climb-out from Perth, Western Australia en route to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, then overspeed and stalling. The plane started to pitch up at 41,000 feet, and the pilots disconnected the autopilot and made an emergency landing at Perth. No one was injured. Subsequent examination revealed that one of the aircraft's several accelerometers had failed some years before, and another at the time of the incident.[50][51]

3 November 2006- A Boeing 777-200 (9M-MRI) encountered problems shortly after lifting out of Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, when the #1 jet engine on the left wing catastrophically failed, and burst into flames. Although the crew did not initially get any indication in the cockpit that something was wrong, they were forced to turn back to Stockholm, where the plane landed safely[25

Answer 4

Yes, I agree with the other people. Besides, why do you plagurize? aviophag... said "A city in Germany--that's your name.". Well could you actually be an airbus employee trying to influence people that boeing jets are not safe?