AA137 LHR-LAX diverts to GLA
 

All,

Got wind online that AA137 has diverted to GLA due to a fire.

Awaiting more.

Any info from AA staff?

BBC Reporting...
 

An American Airlines plane bound for Germany has made an emergency landing at Glasgow Airport after the pilot reported a fire on board.
The Boeing 777-200, travelling to Hamburg, landed safely at 1330 GMT.

It landed after a warning light suggested there was a fire in the hold. There was no fire and the light was found to be faulty.

It is understood there were about 200 people on board and all have disembarked from the flight.

An engineer is being flown up from London to fix the switch.

Cargo extinguishers released and aircraft landed safely at EGPF (which was experiencing rather heavy snow showers), where it taxied off and was inspected by the Fire Crew. Do not have any details of what happened next but believe the Fire Crew have now been stood down to local standby.

Great job by the crew, ATC, Rescue 177, Fire Crew and the crew of all the other aircraft affected.

VC10 Rib22
:ok:

BAA Glasgow web site states:

AA137 from HEATHROW LANDED 1328

Subsequent arrivals/departures were;

BE7086 from BIRMINGHAM LANDED 1350
EZY6955 to BERLIN AIRBORNE 1352
EK025 from DUBAI LANDED 1354

So maybe the runway was unavailable for a short while?

We had no 777 at Hamburg today, could you coinfirm your statement?

American Airlines 777 Makes an Emergency Landing in Glasgow

By Peter Woodifield
March 3 (Bloomberg) -- An American Airlines Inc. Boeing 777 plane made an emergency landing at Glasgow Airport in Scotland today after a cockpit warning light indicated a fire.
Nobody was injured and there was no fire, Kevin Lang, a spokesman for airport operator BAA Ltd., said.
The aircraft, which was carrying 207 passengers, landed at 1:30 p.m. local time, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Peter Woodifield in Edinburgh at [email protected] .

BBC now stating
An American Airlines plane bound for the US made an emergency landing at Glasgow Airport after the pilot reported a fire on board.
The Boeing 777-200, travelling to Los Angeles, landed at 1330 GMT. There were 207 passengers and crew on board

More bad news for the beleagured 777 :sad:

It was actually flying from Heathrow to LAX when it was diverted to Glasgow - if it was flying to Hamburg that would have been a massive detour :}
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/7275245.stm

I took off this morning from GLA (I'm just SLF) and the snow was pretty bad then and is far worse now - glad everything went well.

Luckily for the plane it wasn't actually on fire, otherwise our resident local BAA hero John Smeaton, who gave the set-alight terrorists a good smack when they drove their flaming jeep into the terminal, would have been sure to run up to the plane and restrain it until the Police arrived :E

Very difficult considering he no longer works at GLA.

The snow here was terrible. Would have been interesting to watch a 772 making an emergency landing in the heavy snow that we saw. :8

What heavy snow?
 

Just some short-lived snow.....what heavy snow at GLA? 2day? :zzz:

Quote.....
FFS ........get a life :ugh:

It's just returned to stand again. Baggage being offloaded from rear cargo.:sad:

Airborne at 22:53. Flight no AA107 for JFK.

Ba 107
 

BA107 is a LHR-JFK leg which today was cancelled, I assume as a result.

Faulty light! We must ground all 777! (And let's ground every boeing aircraft while we are at it...)

I was wondering how you would explain that to the pax as you come into land at Glasgow...

Do you tell them you are landing due to an emergency? Do you just land and hope they think it's Germany (:P)

Whats the usual procedures for informing the passengers while flying?

Also, whilst alerting the pax presumably you are deciding:

1) Spend time dumping fuel
or
2) Land heavy & quick

Fire light... and no way of knowing if it's for real or not... it's a no brainer: Land ASAP

Errr, BA 107 goes to Dubai, not JFK. And it wasn't cancelled.:confused: