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Two people injured as London-bound Boeing 777 suffers ‘catastrophic engine failure’, with smoke and flames coming from fuselage

 

A British Airways jet has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, sending smoke billowing into the air, after suffering what the pilot described as a “catastrophic failure” of the left engine.

The plane – a Boeing 777 – could be seen with flames around its fuselage.
There were 159 passengers and 13 crew on board. Two people were treated for minor injuries as a result of the fire, which involved a flight that was due to fly from the US city’s McCarran airport to Gatwick. The blaze was quickly put out by around 50 firefighters.
The plane’s take-off had been aborted shortly before the fire broke out. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Boeing’s 777 left engine burst into flames. Passegers were evacuated via inflatable slides.
Dramatic images of flight BA2276 were shared on social media by members of the public at the airport, which is five miles south of downtown Las Vegas.
Guardian reporter Jacob Steinberg was on the plane and tweeted about the evacuation: “Just evacuated on a British Airways flight at Las Vegas airport after an engine caught fire. Don’t think anyone hurt.

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Looks like another write off for BA 777s... was it GE90 on a 77E?

So the fire broke out from the engine or the body?

Edited by S V Choong

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It has the GE GE90-85B - it would appear that the engine suffered an uncontained failure and that started a fuel line or fuel tank fire,

More: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20150908-0

That would have been a near death experience... was really lucky that they got it contained before fire getting into the fuel tanks.

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Kudos to the LAS ATC and firefighting team too - everything was over in about 5 mins. We have seen some aircraft completely destroyed on the ground because of tardy firefighting services.

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NTSB detects signs of uncontained engine failure from BA 777 fire

 

An uncontained engine failure has emerged as a possible source of the fire that damaged a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER on a Las Vegas runway on 8 September.
Preliminary findings released by the US National Transportation Safety Board on 10 September indicated multiple breaches of the engine fan case in the region of the high pressure compressor.
Several pieces of about 17.8-20.3cm (7-8in) in length from the high pressure compressor spool were found on the runway, the NTSB says.
Full report:

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Video from inside the cabin (Las Vegas B77E) and Second BA jet in ‘fire drama’ at Heathrow also a B77E

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6633446/Second-BA-jet-in-fire-drama-at-Heathrow.html?CMP=spklr-_-S9SunSocial-_-FBPAGE-_-TheSun-thesun-_-20150911-_-News-_-234298483

 

Not sure what is going on with the 77Es... seems there are incidents after incidents.

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NTSB: Fatigue crack led to 2015 British Airways engine fire

 

A fatigue crack in a turbine disk web and subsequent uncontained engine failure led to the Sept. 8, 2015 engine fire on a British Airways (BA) Boeing 777-236ER on takeoff from Las Vegas, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said June 20.
The captain aborted the takeoff seconds after hearing a “bang” during the takeoff roll at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. The flight’s destination was London Gatwick Airport; 157 passengers and 13 crewmembers on board evacuated via emergency slides.
NTSB said it found a fatigue crack in the high-pressure compressor stage 8 disk web of the aircraft’s left GE Aviation GE90-85BG11 engine. The web in a turbine engine rotor disk extends radially from the disk hub to its rim. The engine failure led to the detachment of the main fuel supply line and subsequent fire.

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