London Heathrow Emergency Landing

It's definitely a cover up. Small explosives where fitted on the fan cowl latches and they blew off. Now I've seen the engines are V2500's I'd put a mars bar on the fan cowls not being latched correctly.

Again coming back to pilot error, he should have spotted it on his walk round ;)
 
Just seen this on the news. The pilots and crew are to be congratulated on the landing and evacuation. :)
 
Great work by the pilots. Sadly it may detrimentally affect their career long term. I seem to recall that the pilot who landed at Heathrow or gatwick a few years ago due to ice on the wings was later made redundant. He was then turned down from a number of airlines as he had an accident on his record; despite the fact the emergency landing wasn't his fault and he flew heroically to save everyone.
 
Looks good from the outside but too much topspin on the throttle lever. Should go back in training, not a mistake I would have made.
 
Hades said:
Great work by the pilots. Sadly it may detrimentally affect their career long term. I seem to recall that the pilot who landed at Heathrow or gatwick a few years ago due to ice on the wings was later made redundant. He was then turned down from a number of airlines as he had an accident on his record; despite the fact the emergency landing wasn't his fault and he flew heroically to save everyone.
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He took redundancy and is back flying with BA. He also didn't land the aircraft.

A bus with an engine out is no big deal. I'm sure Blinkz can come in here and tell you that. The extra crew load is tiny compared to other failures and how engine failures used to impact crew attention. It's really not that heroic at all. It would have been more worrying that the fan cowls could have damaged the airframe.
 
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A plane I was on to Aberdeen once lost a cowling over the North Sea. I happened to have the seat overlooking it, discretely flagged the stewardess down and pointed it out.

Never seen anyone go so white in my life. Worried me slightly too as I have a fear of flying!
 
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Been following this on various forums today and this is probably the best account so far..

http://avherald.com/h?article=462beb5e&opt=0
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Great find... thanks for that!

Looks like the cowling for both engines were lost in flight from the pictures with the red circles... Must have landed in some obscure place if they haven't been reported yet????


I have no idea about this news to peoples attention due to my other half flying from Heathrow this evening! I think (hoping) her flight will be okay!
 
Not much of a story really. Plane hits birds, safety procedures work correctly, plane lands, a bunch of flights delayed/cancelled.
 
Judgeneo said:
Not much of a story really. Plane hits birds, safety procedures work correctly, plane lands, a bunch of flights delayed/cancelled.
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Did you read the link? Highly unlikely to have been a bird strike, taking out both engine covers. Thank heaven though it could have been a lot worse..
 
So it looks like the ground crew messed up and the pilots should have checked the cowl latches during their pre-flight check?
 
dannyjo22 said:
He took redundancy and is back flying with BA. He also didn't land the aircraft.

A bus with an engine out is no big deal. I'm sure Blinkz can come in here and tell you that. The extra crew load is tiny compared to other failures and how engine failures used to impact crew attention. It's really not that heroic at all. It would have been more worrying that the fan cowls could have damaged the airframe.
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In this instance the crew were dealing with an engine out, low confidence in the remaining engine, a fuel leak and difficulties with the hydraulics. Quite a big deal!
 
Curio said:
So it looks like the ground crew messed up and the pilots should have checked the cowl latches during their pre-flight check?
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I had no idea (well I did a little but still) that the pilots had to visually inspect the plane prior to take off? I thought that was the responsibility of the ground crew who would then pass a report to the pilots with everything signed off?
 
Scuzi said:
In this instance the crew were dealing with an engine out, low confidence in the remaining engine, a fuel leak and difficulties with the hydraulics. Quite a big deal!
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Is there a confirmed engine out? In the landing video the port engine has thrust reverser actuation and as far as I understand, this will not happen on an Airbus if the engine master switches are turned off (as they would be in an engine shut down). The starboard still seems to be in action given the trail from it as seen in videos on news sites.
 
squerble said:
Is there a confirmed engine out? In the landing video the port engine has thrust reverser actuation and as far as I understand, this will not happen on an Airbus if the engine master switches are turned off (as they would be in an engine shut down). The starboard still seems to be in action given the trail from it as seen in videos on news sites.
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The crew shut down an engine before returning to Heathrow.
 
Scuzi said:
In this instance the crew were dealing with an engine out, low confidence in the remaining engine, a fuel leak and difficulties with the hydraulics. Quite a big deal!
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What difficulties with the hydraulics? Single engine operations on the 319 is a piece of ****. I'm sure the stress level was up but the actual operation is no harder on the crews than dual engine operation.
 
dannyjo22 said:
What difficulties with the hydraulics? Single engine operations on the 319 is a piece of ****. I'm sure the stress level was up but the actual operation is no harder on the crews than dual engine operation.
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The crew didn't go into detail over the RT, they were too busy.
 
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