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BA B777 Incident @ Heathrow (merged)

Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:08
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:14
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CDA

Will this one count towards a CDA?
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:19
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Hi all,

Lots of mention of windshear but not much about vortex wake. COULD explain a wing drop. Seen it many times from the tower though I would add that it SHOULD NOT cause an incident like this if the a/c was in all other ways flying normally.

In response to so many other posts; most of the reporting from the press, from what I've seen, has been absolute rot. With regards to all the speculation, sorry folks, human nature and you ain't gonna stop it. If you don't like it I suggest you wait on the AAIB website instead of sitting on a RUMOUR website.

Best wishes to all on board and ground personnel involved.

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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:20
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quick question...

...what are the normal approach speed and stall speed for a 777?
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:23
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Well, whatever the cause of the short landing it was a lucky escape for West London. Probably not a popular view on this forum but the appoaches over central / west london are simply insane for the amount of traffic that now uses LHR.

I'm not anti airport, 27L used to be my local runway when I worked in technical block A
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:24
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A colleague of mine flew several profiles on the 777-200 sim this morning (the real one, please, not the MS version) failing various engines at 500 and 300 ft on the LHR 27L model. A failure of 2 engines between 500 and 300 feet, with an attempt to stretch the glide towards stall speed produced a touchdown at a similar point on the visual model as the BA aircraft.

All this proves is that the simulator software will produce this effect. It does not indicate that a double engine failure on a BA 777 in that environment will produce the same effect. However, for those of you who are professional pilots on B777 this may be of interest to you.

Like most of the professional pilots on this site, I despair of the ignorance of many posters.

Please ladies and gentlemen, if you are not a professional pilot with experience of flying a 777, restrict your posts to facts that you know, or facts that have been communicated to you. Ask as many questions as you like, and ppruners with appropriate experience will attempt, bandwith permitting, to give you answers.

If you post rubbish, you will be judged and classed by professional pilots as rubbish.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:26
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the RAT was deployed. here is the picture:

http://www.heathrowpictures.com/pict...72_gymmm15.jpg

So therefore it was a double engine flame out.....I guess. And that seems more likely than windshear. Specifically because the RAT is deployed.

Do the CVR and the FDR continue to work on a 777 with the engines shutdown?
Today 11:36
The CVR and FDR will operate even if both engines are failed/not operating, if the airplane is airborne.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:29
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Jetnoise2007's pictures provide some interesting views of the engines:

Left engine: Right engine:

No doubt those with better analytical skills will jump in here but it looks from the damage to the fan blades as though Left engine was producing some rotation when it ate the dirt whilst the right engine fan blades appear to be relatively undamaged.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:36
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After being told to turn off mobiles, laptops and all other electrical equipment due to interference with the aircraft controls. Could this be a ground based outside influence?

An "electronic storm" or whatever the geeks call it?

If there is fuel still on the aircraft, as reported by the beeb yesterday (although with one main gear ripped off and the other stuffed through the trailing edge I cant believe there wouldnt be a leak with potential fire risk??)
I cant think of anything failure-wise that would end up with a total loss of power.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:37
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Nobody seems to have mentioned the landing gear.

News report paraphrase: 'The landing gear deployed very late.'

-Uninformed speculation hat on

Could this not suggest that problems were occuring before the normal time for gear extension? 1500ft? Or do the 777 hydraulic systems have enough accumulator pressure to raise the landing gear, assuming it is raised hydraulically?
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:39
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Statement from the AAIB website today:-
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/latest_ne...nuary_2008.cfm
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:40
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If anybody has accident investigation experience, please take a look at the pics in the earlier post ()

Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but... It looks like the blades of the first fan on the number 1 engine are all missing their tips. That's not the case on the number 2. Now, the cowling on number 1 seems to have suffered more damage that the cowling on number 2 (hard to say with the mud). So number 2 could have been spinning but the blades suffered no damage due to intact (ish) cowling. But could someone with adequate knowledge tell me whether the blade damage on number 1 could have occured with just a windmilling fan or would you expect some level of thrust to be present? If you have an opinion, please state your background so we have some idea about the depth of your knowledge.

On a side note, can you confirm that the RAT on the 777 would only deploy for double engine failure (as opposed to single)? The answer is probably in a previous post but with all the "server is too busy" hits, I don't have the patience to look

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Old 18th Jan 2008, 10:49
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Originally Posted by fox niner
the RAT was deployed.
I am not sure you can conclude that the RAT was deployed from that picture. That the RAT is visible could be due to damage to the surrounding structure. The RAT doesn't appear to be damaged either, although the picture resolution makes details difficult to see.

With regards to the apparent difference in engine damage, as the RH MLG appears to have detached completely, while the LH did not, there would probably have been some difference in the ground clearance, or lack of, between the two engines.

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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:15
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Does anyone know what spec Av fuel is uplifted out of Bejing?
The temps enroute were very low with -73 degrees OAT at around 35,000 ft.
Our fuel temp got as low as -43 degrees C but we had Jet A1. Would have been a different story with straight Jet A.
The 777 was relatively lightly loaded and would have climbed to a higher alt and more quickly and cold soaked for longer. Just wondering if the power loss (if indeed there was one) could be related to fuel icing or more probably fuel waxing. Any fuel flow restriction would not be so apparent at low thrust settings, as in the descent, but may have become an issue when power was applied during the later arrival stage. This may have led to a total or partial engine failures.

Pure speculation I know. Just tossing around ideas.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:16
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Originally Posted by Loose rivets
...and this includes any other low post Ppruners that think they have the right to tell us that we shouldn't discuss this matter -- until it has been fully investigated.
I agree with them. The speculation in here such as "The B777 is NOT fly-by-wire" and other dross is stomach-turning. If you have no clue about airliners, fly-by-wire, gliding, how much noise an engine makes with power on or off, stalling, AoA, RATs, windshear, fuel policies, etc etc etc, then why not just wait for the facts? ...and save the bandwidth.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:26
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Look at the flaps. Correct landing settings?
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:31
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To put possible causes to one side for a moment, at what point do they attempt to recover the baggage from the hold (and presumably the cabin)? Obviously it's not a trivial thing to unload, and they won't want to disturb the evidence, but there are presumably pax from the flight stuck away from home with nothing that they weren't carrying in their pockets (although I'd guess that BA will be taking care of them). Obviously if there had been a fire then there probably wouldn't be enough to recover, but it's only been slightly squished in this case.

Has the man with the pot of white paint been to visit yet?
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:33
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Question

Just looked at the pictures at http://www.heathrowpictures.com/pict...72_gymmm20.jpg and http://www.heathrowpictures.com/pict...772_gymmm3.jpg

Does anyone think they look like they were rotating at impact?

The fan blades look practically undamaged....

Well scratch that for the No 1 engine, clearly I wasn't looking hard enough!

<fx: embarrassed cough>

Shuffles away....

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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:35
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I am not sure you can conclude that the RAT was deployed from that picture. That the RAT is visible could be due to damage to the surrounding structure.
Well, you could be right there capt. Oveur. But it looks like a deployed RAT so chances are it is a deployed RAT. Seems more plausible than windshear. But in all fairness, the structure around it is quite messed up.
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Fuel on the 777:

Does anyone know what spec Av fuel is uplifted out of Bejing?
The temps enroute were very low with -73 degrees OAT at around 35,000 ft.
Our fuel temp got as low as -43 degrees C but we had Jet A1. Would have been a different story with straight Jet A.
The 777 was relatively lightly loaded and would have climbed to a higher alt and more quickly and cold soaked for longer.
The 777 is not prone to fuel icing. the fuel tanks are positioned in the wings in such a way that the OAT can not "reach" the fuel and cool it down as much.

I have not seen a colder fuel temperature than around -30 degrees C on the B777, also overflying siberia. A 747 is much more affected by fuel cooling.
In China we get uplifted with jet A1 or TC1. (russian grade)

Alright. I'll be cleaning out the shed for a couple of hours. See you guys later this evening.
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Old 18th Jan 2008, 11:39
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Several eye witness reports from passengers onboard the aircraft suggest that they could hear louder than normal engine noise on the approach and a higher deck angle sensation than they are used to; so why are people coming to the conclusion the aircraft suffered a double engine failure. The short video of the a/c's approach confirms it was at an unusually high angle of attack, the approach path flown is consistent with the escape manoeuvre to be executed when encountering windshear. Based upon the facts, the two most likely scenarios which caused the a/c to land short are microburst or wake vortices encounter.
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