British Airways B772 at London on Sep 6th 2017, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: September 6, 2017 / 20:21:23 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 6, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BAW-82GD

Destination
Athens, Greece

Aircraft Registration
G-VIIH

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

A British Airways Boeing 777-200, registration G-VIIH performing flight BAW-82GD from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Athens (Greece), was in the initial climb out of Heathrow's runway 27L when the crew received a number of fault messages for the right hand engine's (GE90) FADEC. The crew shut the engine down, stopped the climb at 6000 feet and returned to Heathrow for a safe landing on runway 27R about one hour after departure.

Main flight BA-632 from Heathrow to Athens was flown by a Boeing 767-300 registration G-BZHB which departed on schedule about 20 minutes after BA-82 and is currently on the way back as BA-633. According to flight plan G-VIIH was assigned callsign BAW-82GD with flight number BA-632Y as a second flight.

A replacement Boeing 777-200 registration G-VIIM departed with a delay of about 6 hours and is estimated to reach Athens with a delay of 6 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in London about 7 hours after landing back.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 6, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BAW-82GD

Destination
Athens, Greece

Aircraft Registration
G-VIIH

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

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