British Airways B772 near Shannon on Nov 9th 2013, smoke in cockpit

Last Update: November 9, 2013 / 21:35:01 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 9, 2013

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-177

Aircraft Registration
G-VIIF

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

A British Airways Boeing 777-200, registration G-VIIF performing flight BA-177 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to New York JFK,NY (USA) with 220 people on board, was enroute at FL360 about 120nm southeast of Shannon (Ireland) when the crew donned their oxygen masks, declared Mayday reporting smoke in the cockpit and diverted to Shannon. While descending towards Shannon the crew still on oxygen masks advised they would stop on the runway but not evacuate, they were landing overweight, in the meantime they were able to isolate the source of the smoke, they requested an ILS approach to runway 24. The aircraft landed overweight but safely on Shannon's runway 24 about 25 minutes after leaving FL360, turned off the runway, stopped off the runway and shut the engines down.

A replacement Boeing 747-400 registration G-CIVX was flown to Shannon, departed Shannon about 7 hours after landing of G-VIIF and is estimated to reach New York with a delay of 7:15 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 9, 2013

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-177

Aircraft Registration
G-VIIF

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

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