Damn Legion!
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ronald_Curtis
Posted on 09/08/2015 4:54:08 PM PDT by Drago
A fire on a British Airways plane at McCarran International Airport has been extinguished and two people were transported to the hospital.
The fire was reported aboard flight 2276 which was preparing to take off for London, airport officials said.
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Better to find it over McCarren than halfway over the Atlantic.
LOL.
“No Russian”
Starting to sound like the daily newscast.
Left engine fire. Now extinguished.
Two injuries, likely from the evac slide landing.
Catastrophic jet engine failures with a fire are REALLY rare absent “FOD” - foreign object damage.
Will be interesting to see what it was all about.
Airport fire crews and on-board fire suppression made a mess on the ground.
BA now has a slightly used “rough condition” aircraft for sale ...
LMAO. "Show me the PlaneFax..."
That pic is a show stopper. The plane will not be going back into service soon.
Looks like they may need to delay the flight until they replace the engine. And the slides. And air out the cabin. And maybe use some duct tape.
It’s a B-777. Right now tin foil hats are being donned and conspiracy theories being created.
The Navy must have hit it with a submarine launched sub-surface to air missile.
I was looking for more conspiracy theory and I’m a bit disappointed so far. That was some catastrophic FOD I guess. I’ve got my extra wide, heavy duty, and nonstick products at the ready.
Hundreds of eye witnesses saw a fire streak go up to the airplane on the runway.
Not much new information about what occurred here. It was reported that GE was the engine manufacture.
Further information/reading on BA “G-VIIO” Boeing 777-236ER delivered in Jan. 1999:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20150908-0
http://www.thebasource.com/g-viio.html#http://www.thebasource.com/b777-200er/g-viio.html#
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6492407
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3228455/Las-Vegas-fire-jet-SECOND-British-Airways-Boeing-777-200-lose-engine-takeoff-forcing-emergency-evacuation.html
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