British Airways B772 near Helsinki on Aug 28th 2018, engine failure
Last Update: September 4, 2018 / 18:56:48 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 28, 2018
Classification
Incident
Cause
Engine failure
Airline
British Airways
Flight number
BA-161
Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Destination
Shanghai Pudong, China
Aircraft Registration
G-YMMH
Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200
ICAO Type Designator
B772
The airport reported emergency services were alerted of the engine failure about 30 minutes prior to landing.
A replacement Boeing 777-200 registration G-YMMK was dispatched from London to Helsinki as flight BA-9150, departed Helsinki about 15.5 hours after landing and is estimated to arrive in Shanghai with a delay of about 16.5 hours.
On Sep 4th 2018 The Aviation Herald received evidence clarifying that the last low pressure turbine stage disk had dislodged, all blades of that stage had been fractured and debris had been ejected through the tail pipe, the debris hitting the underside of the right wing, the fuselage and the right hand horizontal stabilizer.
A passenger reported there had been a loud bang, several passengers thought it was like an explosion, and streaks of flame from the right hand engine. The captain later commented that the engine failure felt exactly like they had practised it in the simulator.
The engine was replaced, the aircraft was able to position back to London Heathrow on Sep 4th 2018.
On Sep 4th 2018 Mart Kaas, an Estonian resident underneath the flight path of G-YMMH, reported that his lawn mower got shattered when it hit something hard in the lawn. The resident then remembered that during a night at the beginning of the previous week they woke up because they heard something falling onto the roof.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 28, 2018
Classification
Incident
Cause
Engine failure
Airline
British Airways
Flight number
BA-161
Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Destination
Shanghai Pudong, China
Aircraft Registration
G-YMMH
Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200
ICAO Type Designator
B772
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