High Anxiety, Part II: Same 747 Flies Again On Three Engines

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/4/2005 | SCOTT MCCARTNEY

[BurbankKarl]

ping

[1FASTGLOCK45]

"Witnesses saw sparks flying out of the engine and heard loud pops"

--> Come on folks, Nothing to see here, Move along!

[ikka]

What is the joke about twin-engine planes... that the first engine failure will take you all the way to the crash site.

[DTogo]

Singapore to London, I've flown that several times. It would be a real bummer to attempt an emergency landing in Iran.

[BurbankKarl]

British Airways Ping

[Paleo Conservative]

Thanks for the ping. Here's a video feed I found.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4247223/detail.html

[BurbankKarl]

[Paleo Conservative]

Here are some previous threads.

Jet Flies On With One Engine Out LA Times ^ | 03/01/2005| Eric Malnic and Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writers | 03/01/2005

British Airways Action Attracts FAA Questions Washington Post ^ | March 1, 2005 | Sara Kehaulani Goo

[Paleo Conservative]

[FreedomCalls]

Bump.

[BurbankKarl]

It is interesting that they lied about the mishap in England....the Boeing instruction is that if you are an hour into the flight, and have attained cruising altitude, you could continue.....wonder how this latest incident will be reported..



BA initially claimed that the engine had failed an hour into the flight. But the airline admitted yesterday that the problem had occurred a few seconds after take-off when the Boeing 747 was only 100ft above the ground.

[Paleo Conservative]

[Hunble]

DAMN, the Boing 747 is one fantastic airplane.

Take that, Air Bus!

[GeronL]

How do you lose an engine?? Did they misplace it?? Did they hide it under a rock in the Canary Islands?

[GeronL]

100ft above the ground?? YIKES!!!

[taxesareforever]

Adds a new meaning to "non-stop" flights.

[C210N]

What is the joke about twin-engine planes... that the first engine failure will take you all the way to the crash site.

I only fly single engine airplanes. Seems to me, a twin engine aircraft is exactly twice as likely to lose an engine as a single.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!