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My Parents & I flew to Australia on G-AVOM British Eagle Bristol Britannia
My Parents & I flew to Australia on G-AVOM British Eagle Bristol Britannia.
London / Melbourne Flight QF/EG.172 Checked In :- British Eagle International Airways, Channel 4 Passenger Building No. 1 (Europa) London Airport. We left London Heathrow on the 15th October 1964 at 10.15 hours, Flew to Frankfurt, Germany , Then to Beirut, Lebanon & landed in Bombay, India. When we were taking off from Bombay , the Outer Starboard engine caught Fire! One of the Male passengers started to panic & banging at the exit door. He was restrained by the cabin crew. We flew back to Bombay & landed Safely. We spent One day in Bombay, until a new engine was flown in, Then continued on our way to Singapore,Then Darwin & our final stop Melbourne, Australia (landed there 17th Oct 1964 at 1300 hours?) . My Question is does anyone have any records or proof that the engine fire happened? as the B.O.A.C. Letter Ref: MQ.Q.005365 dated 23 September 1964 (3 weeks before we left London) scheduled Three days travel in total? |
The registration marks G-AVOM belong to a CEA DR221 not a Bristol Britannia. Try G-AOVM.........
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You could try here.
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Engine failures of this sort were by no means unknown on such flights in those times, and a delay of one or more days to get things fixed was just one of those things, so little long-term recording of such. Engine failures, alias "catching fire", which probably sounds more spectacular than it actually was, were a periodic event for all operators, large and small, doing such work. The Britannia took several years to cure engine problems, which never caused actual harm to a passenger flight, but were better than the Wright R-3350 powerplants fitted to Constellations/DC7s which had preceded them !
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Originally Posted by 6473LONPERTHDUB
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My Parents & I flew to Australia on G-AVOM British Eagle Bristol Britannia.
London / Melbourne Flight QF/EG.172 Checked In :- British Eagle International Airways, Channel 4 Passenger Building No. 1 (Europa) London Airport. We left London Heathrow on the 15th October 1964 at 10.15 hours, Flew to Frankfurt, Germany , Then to Beirut, Lebanon & landed in Bombay, India. When we were taking off from Bombay , the Outer Starboard engine caught Fire! One of the Male passengers started to panic & banging at the exit door. He was restrained by the cabin crew. We flew back to Bombay & landed Safely. We spent One day in Bombay, until a new engine was flown in, Then continued on our way to Singapore,Then Darwin & our final stop Melbourne, Australia (landed there 17th Oct 1964 at 1300 hours?) . My Question is does anyone have any records or proof that the engine fire happened? as the B.O.A.C. Letter Ref: MQ.Q.005365 dated 23 September 1964 (3 weeks before we left London) scheduled Three days travel in total? |
The Britannia engine fire warning system was notoriously unreliable, leading to the saying "A red sky at night means an engine's alight".
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