"Incident" at Heathrow - runways closed

[nonplussed]

BBC reporting now in red news ticker. Can't find any other details at the moment.

[illmonkey]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bre...



Heathrow airport has been closed this morning following an incident, reportedly on a British Airways plane.

Early reports suggest the plane was evacuated and none of the passengers have been injured.

Heathrow airport have confirmed that both runways have been closed as a result of an incident.

[Frik]

Plane lost an engine on take off, whatever that means.

https://twitter.com/JeremyCThompson/status/3378408...

[RumbleOfThunder]

787 Dreamliner?

[onyx39]

odd to close BOTH runways for one aircraft.... the two runways (for those who do not know Heathrow are parallel and approx .5 - 1 mile apart...

eta: just realised... if all the appliances are dealing with an incident, they have no fire cover for the rest of the airport.

Edited by onyx39 on Friday 24th May 09:19

[nonplussed]

Frik said:

Plane lost an engine on take off

Must have been a bit of a WTF moment.

[Frik]

onyx39 said:

odd to close BOTH runways for one aircraft.... the two runways (for those who do not know Heathrow are parallel and approx .5 - 1 mile apart...

Other runway was closed because of lack of fire cover; they were all dealing with the aircraft that had just landed with one of the two engines on fire...

[shakotan]

nonplussed said:

Frik said:

Plane lost an engine on take off

Must have been a bit of a WTF moment.

'Lost' an engine just means without power or malfunctioned, it doesn't mean it fell off!

[Mikey G]

Bird strike?

[McWigglebum4th]

nonplussed said:

Frik said:

Plane lost an engine on take off

Must have been a bit of a WTF moment.

Depends on if it is the use of lost as in its stopped working

Or the more worrying use of lost as in "I'm sure it was there last time i looked"

[nonplussed]

shakotan said:

'Lost' an engine just means without power or malfunctioned, it doesn't mean it fell off!

Thanks for clarifying that. Epic blonde moment for me there. I did actually picture it at the end of the runway with the engine a few hundred yards behind it.

[chrisgtx]

Good footage on sky news of it flying overhead with smoke coming from the engine.

[Frik]

Sounds like it might have been bird strike.

[onyx39]

chrisgtx said:

Good footage on sky news of it flying overhead with smoke coming from the engine.

Would have been so much better without the sensationalist " Heathrow Shut - Plane on fire over London" Headline...

[tedmus]

[Justin Cyder]

Whopping great dent in the pylon there. Something has pinged off that engine for sure.

[Mikey G]

Typical Bird strike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE

[tedmus]

Justin Cyder said:

Whopping great dent in the pylon there. Something has pinged off that engine for sure.

So trouble with both engines then as the sky pictures show smoke coming from the right engine?

[illmonkey]

Mikey G said:

Typical Bird strike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE

Concorde in the background on the video

[Justin Cyder]

tedmus said:

So trouble with both engines then as the sky pictures show smoke coming from the right engine?

Who knows yet? However, if the case, then that would strongly suggest bird encounter or an unbelievably inept mechanic. Probably not an unbelievably inept mechanic.