Singapore Airline passenger plane engine fire landing Beijing airport

[Robin 0]

I got this from China website:

 

 

Xinhua News Agency quick news: from the commercial aviation bureau's news: After a Singapore Airline's passenger plane engine fire, just was safe descends the capital international airport, everyone is safe.

 

CCTV reported that,Because this morning a Singapore Airline Boeing 777-200 passenger plane the engine failure in-flight fire, after completes the airborne fire fighting, it was already safe in the capital airfield safe landing

 

[Naim 6]

Story carried by Reuters already.

 

 

Singapore plane makes emergency landing in Beijing

24 Jan 2007 03:38:11 GMT

Source: Reuters

 

BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 made a successful emergency landing at Beijing airport on Wednesday after an engine caught fire, Xinhua news agency said.

 

"Both the aircraft and the passengers are safe," Xinhua said, quoting Chinese civil aviation authorities. It did not give details.

 

The aircraft, bound for Singapore, took off from Beijing at 0045 GMT, a spokeswoman for the airline's Beijing office told Reuters by telephone. She said she did not know of any fire.

 

"We were informed that the aircraft had suffered some technical malfunction and had to return to the airport," the spokeswoman, surnamed Ma, said.

[Andrew Ong 1]

Anyone know the reg. number of the SQ 772?

[Naim 6]

Maybe just a false alarm?

 

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SQ plane turns back, lands safely after fire alarm goes off

 

By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 24 January 2007 1341 hrs

 

BEIJING: A Singapore Airlines flight from Beijing to Singapore turned back one hour and 40 minutes after take-off on Wednesday morning, when an alarm indicating engine fire went off.

 

An SIA spokesperson said there is no confirmation of an actual fire so far.

 

The pilot had acted in response to the alarm and returned to Beijing, landing safely at the airport at 10:40am local time.

 

The plane was carrying 227 passengers and 16 crew at the time.

 

Ground engineers are now conducting an inspection of the aircraft to investigate what has occurred and its cause.

 

They are looking to see what repairs may be necessary before the aircraft resumes service.

 

Arrangements are being made to help the affected passengers continue their journey. - CNA/so

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

Do keep us posted withthe incident, just curious. Anything to do with the a/c system since we have been discussing about it quite heavily in the Line Maintainance forum?

[Naim 6]

LATEST ...

 

Wednesday January 24, 2007

 

Singapore Airlines plane lands safely in Beijing after engine fire alert

 

BEIJING (AP) - A Singapore Airlines passenger jet carrying more than 240 people landed safely at Beijing's airport after an engine fire alarm went off Wednesday, the airline said.

 

Although there was no fire, the airline said the pilot acted correctly in returning the plane to the airport.

 

"There is no evidence present of fire, damage or elevated temperatures,'' the airline said in a statement, adding that the alarm may have been tripped by an airflow disturbance that affected heat insulation on the plane's right engine.

 

There were no injuries in the incident.

 

The airline said flight SQ811 was an hour and 40 minutes into a trip from the Chinese capital to Singapore when the pilot decided to return to Beijing due to the alarm.

 

It said the Boeing 777-200 plane was carrying 227 passengers and 16 crew.

 

Earlier, a Beijing airport official said the plane was forced to return because there had been a fire in the engine.-AP

[Pieter C. 5]

Not the first time SQ has 777-engine problems

 

Are they similar to MH & BA ones (RR) ?

[Denny Yen 0]

From Chinese forum

 

[Alif A. F. 0]

Source: Forbes

 

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - A Singapore Airlines plane was forced to return to Beijing not long after taking off today, following an engine fire detection alarm, the company and China's aviation administration said.

 

The plane landed safely at around 10:30 am (0230 GMT) and none of the 227 passengers and 17 crew members were hurt, said the General Administration of Civil Aviation in a statement on its website.

 

Flight SQ811, a Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) 777-200 service from Beijing to Singapore, returned to Beijing airport an hour and 40 minutes after it took off due to the activation of an engine fire detection alarm, said a Singapore Airlines (other-otc: SGPJF.PK - news - people ) statement.

 

The company said there was no confirmation the alarm was activated by a fire but the pilot returned the aircraft to Beijing as quickly as possible.

 

However, the General Administration of Civil Aviation statement said an engine on the right side of the aircraft caught fire and the plane returned to the Beijing after the fire was put out in mid-air.

[Andrew Ong 1]

 

So that SQ 772 is 9V-SQH

Edited January 25, 2007 by Andrew Ong

[Jerry Ang 0]

No news about the cause of the fire? I'm more interested of what cause the fire.