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frieghtdog2000
15th Jul 2018, 16:59
British Airways Boeing 777-36NER G-STBE (http://thebasource.com/g-stbe.html) operating the Singapore – Sydney sector of BA16 Sydney – Singapore – London Heathrow was climbing through 28,000ft to the South East of Kuala Lumpur this evening when the #2 engine failed. Crew returned to Singapore for a safe landing. Unconfirmed reports state that engine parts caused damage to the fail fin.

Any othere information?

wiggy
15th Jul 2018, 18:42
British Airways Boeing 777-36NER G-STBE (http://thebasource.com/g-stbe.html) operating the Singapore – Sydney sector of BA16 Sydney – Singapore – London Heathrow...

That quote from the BAsource website is horribly convoluted and potentially confusing. The flight number southbound (LHR-SIN-SYD) is the BA15, it then changes to the BA16 northbound (SYD-SIN-LHR), so either the flight number is wrong or the destination (Sydney) is wrong.

No other info other than I do know the aircraft is still on the ground in SIN, so the “source” got that bit right.

DaveReidUK
15th Jul 2018, 19:10
The turnback occurred about 25 minutes into the SIN-LHR sector.

OldLurker
15th Jul 2018, 19:43
AvHerald:
Incident: British Airways B773 at Singapore on Jul 13th 2018, engine shut down in flight (http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4bb24883)

krismiler
16th Jul 2018, 05:43
Aircraft currently sitting on a remote bay in WSSS with #2 engine sitting on a trolley underneath the pylon, so the problem was serious enough to require removal. No blindingly obvious damage to the tail fin, however I was taxiing behind and was looking mostly at the engine area so I could have easily missed it.

wiggy
18th Jul 2018, 03:07
Post engine change aircraft due back into LHR tonight (18th)...not heard any reports about damage to tail area.