Poll: Regarding the British Airways Flight Today, What Do You Think Caused The Crash?
Posted by Matthew Justice on Jan 17, 2008
As most of you know there was a plane crash today at London Heathrow involving a British Airways 777-200 (Registration G-YMMM) inbound from Beijing.
The airplane came to rest at the threshold of runway 27L. Its undercarriage has been torn off and the twin-jet has sustained substantial damage to the engines and wings. There were only 3 minor injuries to the reported 136 passengers.
My question to the readers on our Blog what is your guess what happened? Please, post your comment below in the comments section and we will have an update to this posting once it is known.
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Comments (7) ...
1. Matthew J on Jan 17, 2008
My guess: possible microburst.
2. Will Masters on Jan 17, 2008
I found this METAR seems to be as close as I can get to the current time of the accident. The weather seemed fine. FYI: NCD = No Clouds Detected
2008/01/17 01:50
EGLL 170150Z AUTO VRB02KT 7000NDV NCD 02/01 Q1005
3. Balint Eros on Jan 17, 2008
Maybe it was bird(s) in the engine, as eyewitnesses claim to have heard a very strange engine noise, and the aircraft tilted on the side while final approach.
First reports say it lost power, though. Seems very strange to me, as a QF 747 just lost power last week over BKK while preparing for landing as well and switched to backup. They landed allright. In this case maybe it just happened so close to touchdown that there was no time to fire up the backup?
4. marc on Jan 19, 2008
the investigation will surely provide the world with the correct answer to this question.. but taking the captains statement into the equasion it seems that the auto throttle either malfunctioned and the vrew did not succed in disconnecting it. And/or the reference speed (programmed into FMS by pilots) was far too low. just an educated guess.
5. john on Jan 19, 2008
Really think there is a control issue between cockpit and engines.FADEC failure is my guess.
6. Sunflyer on Jan 23, 2008
A double engine failure at the same time may indicate a fuel problem or an electronic failure.
7. Hal on Feb 9, 2008
Were they feeding the engines off of an empty tank or tanks? Boost pumps working, switches on? Engine driven pumps cavitating? I doubt an avionics problem. If I had to bet money, I'd put it on a crew error.
