What happened to G-YMMM that crash landed at Heathrow Airport in January?

Question

After the 17th January crash landing of flight BA038, I was wondering what exactly happened to the aircraft itself - registration G-YMMM. Driving past Heathrow the other day I noticed a large BA aircraft parked without a tailfin and possibly without wings - is that the same aircraft and is it still being worked on on-site?

Another little bit of into that would interest me greatly too, what would have happened immediately following the crash landing? Was the whole runway pulled out of use or did subsequent aircraft simply continue flying over the crash site and landing as per usual?

Answer 1

scrapped

it was beyond economical repair

the out come of the crash is on going and was due to fuel starvation not pilot error or empty tanks

BA maintenance will get the blame not Boeing for taking the back up pump of the plane

Answer 2

Came across this a bit late, nevertheless . . .  The runway was closed immediately and not re-opened until the AAIB had attended and given permission for the aircraft to be moved and until the runway and its equipment had been checked. The investigation centred (and still does) on the problem of the power falling off and complicated tests have established that there wasn't a problem with the engines as such, but rather a lack of fuel supply.  The last I heard was that they'd found evidence of damage to the fuel pumps that indicated a snag with the actual supply system and they're still looking at that.

The important bits were removed for lab testing and I'd imagine that it's quite possible that what you've seen is the remains still parked up. Well, stacked up, it's scrap.  I can't imagine a reason for any other BA aircraft to be out in the open at Heathrow and missing major components.

Answer 3

Check out the AAIB website, I think there's a preliminary report there. Sorry can't lay a link on for you but it should be easy enough to get yourself.

Answer 4

was due to either computer bug or fuel contamination (apparently, it flew over an area of extreme cold air and the fuel might have frozen at one point causing the pipes, fuel flow governor and/or pumps damage)

there was indeed a preliminary report, I asked the same question some while back and the answerer gave me a great link to the AAIB report here :

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/S1-...

after it crash landed, the runway was closed completely.(just go to any news agency's website and search in the archives)

the slides were deployed but most people walked off them since the aircraft was lying on its belly, insufficient angle was achieved for the pax to "slide" down.

the aircraft is damaged beyond repair economics wise. the left landing gear punched through the wing, , the other landing gears collapsed. The engines, which are the most expensive parts, have disformed fan blades and are generally disfigured meaning that they will need to be replaced in whole.

depending on when you drove past EGLL, it is possible that you saw the aircraft still there seeing as they need to salvage whatever they need and they still need to chop it up before shipping away.

Answer 5

As to the first part.... dont know what happened to the aircraft....maybe that is the one you saw.

The runway was closed until the aircraft had been removed....causing lots of delays...