British Airways B789 near Copenhagen on Nov 21st 2017, fire in cabin

Last Update: November 21, 2017 / 23:04:02 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 21, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-39

Destination
Beijing, China

Aircraft Registration
G-ZBKN

ICAO Type Designator
B789

A British Airways Boeing 787-900, registration G-ZBKN performing flight BA-39 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Beijing (China), was enroute at FL370 about 35nm south of Copenhagen (Denmark) when the crew decided to turn around and return to London reporting there had been some electrical fire in the cabin, which had been extinguished. The aircraft returned to Heathrow for a safe landing on runway 27R about 100 minutes later.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 21, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-39

Destination
Beijing, China

Aircraft Registration
G-ZBKN

ICAO Type Designator
B789

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