Y. J. Foo 0 Report post Posted December 30, 2005 (edited) British Airways flight 116, a 747-400, has experienced a fire in engine number 2 after takeoff from runway 31L at approximately 2325 lcl. The flight landed safely on runway 31L some 20 minutes later and was inspected by fire services on taxiway papa. It is has taxiied back to T7 to offload passengers. One fire bottle was fired and the immediate inspection revealed that "the core of the engine is gone". http://www.airliners.net/discussions/gener...d.main/2519469/ Edit: Wrong news item... Edited December 30, 2005 by Y. J. Foo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Walter Sim 1 Report post Posted December 30, 2005 Heard it from the radio just now. The core of the engine is gone, thats serius isnt it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Min Chun 0 Report post Posted December 30, 2005 any pics here available? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denny Yen 0 Report post Posted December 30, 2005 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3769112# Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mohd Idham 0 Report post Posted December 31, 2005 Passenger: "The plane just stopped, and we see the fire, and I really don't want to get on any plane anymore." Really a serious one... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
