View Full Version : LHR 747 incident
Dude~
30th Sep 2004, 21:34
At approximately 2120 this evening I was watching a 747 rotate on 27L whilst at work on one of the south side cargo stands, and I witnessed a large orange flash behind one of the engines followed by a loud thud. The subsequent climb-out did not look normal from where I was standing. The aircraft made a long right turn on to an easterly heading, to the north of the field. It 'looked' very low. Could this have been a surge or similar? Any one got any details. I expected to see it return to LHR within the hour but I did not.
Flying Guy
30th Sep 2004, 21:41
Sounds like he had a compressor stall.
GearDown&Locked
30th Sep 2004, 22:08
I believe that an engine surge, or at least only one surge as reported, is not a reason for coming back, unless the engine continues to surge.
GD&L
Are you sure it was a 747??
BRISTOLRE
1st Oct 2004, 09:58
Whatever it was was scary, very loud boom plus aftershock - heard it as well at similar time last night! Please can someone confirm type & operator.
catchup
1st Oct 2004, 10:23
Yeah, at 21:30 that evening approaching LHR we heard an ASIANA (552?) telling they have shut down one engine and wishing to dump before they return.
regards
I thought it was Asiana but didn't want to say at the time. So they shut one engine down did they?
What a time to have an engine go bang, just on rotation.