BA A319 makes emergency landing at Heathrow

[pilotsandy]

Flight BA762 flying from London Heathrow to Oslo had to return and make an emergency on the Northern Runway (27R) due to a "technical fault".

 

Video has emerged of the aircraft whilst flying back to Heathrow with a trail of smoke coming from the starboard side engine, believed to have been a small fire.

 

http://www.flyvids.com/view/1742/british-airways-a319-flying-with-missing-fan-cowl/

 

 

[Guest extralite]

Other footage shows it flying with damage to both engines. The other forum talk is that may have been both engine cowls blown off, possibly due to a design which makes it hard to tell if they are clipped up before flight, unless one looksvery closely.

 

 

[pilotsandy]

But how come they noticed it so late?

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Possibly the kind of design anomaly which readily attracts errors when ground crew fasten things on an aircraft where the fastening is a little. . . "odd" or awkward, . . rather like the old problem with the baggage doors on the old DC10 aircraft, which had a rather poorly designed door locking mechanism which, if not locked correctly after loading baggage, COULD open in flight causing a sudden decompression of the atmosphere in the hold, which actually led to a couple of horrendous accidents where the cabin floor deformed downwards, thereby deforming, or fracturing the flight controls to the tail surfaces,. . .plenty of stories available about those incidents.

 

The scuttlebut over here in the UK is that the cowlings are not fit for purpose, and they (probably ) won't be redesigned until there is a major fatality or two,. . .( Not my words ) which was exactly the situation with the DC10 stories, . . .too much cost and bother to alter a design,. . .let's save money. ( again. . .not my words. . .)

 

Then there was the "C" lock on the forward baggage door of some Boeing 747 types, which had no electrical isolation during flight mode, and if one of the toilets overflowed, ( or whatever the daft reason was,. . .and it WAS daft. . .) this could cause a short circuit which actuated the "C" lock motor and opened the door, on one occasion causing a cabin floor collapse and a couple of rows of seats containing several passengers to be sucked outside the aeroplane and through the engine. . . . it's possibly ( POSSIBLY ?) a similar story. . . the "cost versus safety" equation. . . . ?

 

Fly safe . . . . ( check the cargo doors and engine cowlings before you get on . . )

 

Phil

 

 

[rankamateur]

You been watching Air Crash Investigation Phil, that episode aired over here this week on one of our many secondary repeart channels.

 

 

[ayavner]

that one was horrifying... i have to say though, they do a great job with the reenactments

 

 

[Ultralights]

from what i have read so far, both engine cowl latches were not closed at all, and missed during walk around, if one was even done.

 

 

[facthunter]

Breakdown of process. The plane wouldn't be in a very dangerous position though in reality. For instance a floating spoiler would affect the plane more and still only be an abnormal op. Nev

 

 

[Phil Perry]

You been watching Air Crash Investigation Phil, that episode aired over here this week on one of our many secondary repeart channels.

Nah. . . . saw the original years ago. I tend not to watch that prog anymore, as some of the reconstructions are a bit TOO dramatised . . . .

 

Phil