BA 777 on fire in Las Vegas
 

CNN reporting that a British Airways 777 is burning on the tarmac in Vegas. The plane was reportedly about to depart for London Gatwick. All on board evacuated.

McCarran Airport @LASairport
UPDATE 4:33 PM -- There were 159 passengers and 13 crew on the flight. Two were transported for minor injuries.

passenger pic from another place
 

KVVU, a Las Vegas TV station, has posted this pic:

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/l...b/britfire.jpg

simply described as "a passenger photo" though obviously from another aircraft.

[edited to point to a different posted copy of the same photo without wasted black pixels on each side]

After fire is put out -

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COa0AJCUEAAWd9M.jpg:large

Tail G-VIIO serial number 29320 delivered 1998 to BA.

Looks like he was taking off from 07L and stop close to A3 or A4. All I can see is a C txy sign... Anything else?

BBC news channel just had a live picture the same angle as the photo nearest above, and also video from a helicopter tour above it after the fire was out, showing smoke deposited on both sides of the fuselage but more on the left about adjacent to the leading edge, the script saying a fire in one engine

Edit 0125: just showing it again, again saying left engine on fire as preparing for takeoff, and this time also quoting unnamed FAA spokesman also saying left engine fire

Guardian had a reporter on board: plane was taking off and aborted.
Read his tweets here:https://twitter.com/JacobSteinberg

British Airways plane catches fire at Las Vegas airport | US news | The Guardian

Not a brake fire
 

They didn't report it as a brake fire mainly because it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stsMzxKrr6Q

Put this video up and you can clearly see the left engine is on fire. The landing gear is not.

National news over here in the Colonies say the engine caught fire as the airplane was taxiing out for departure, but it was actually on takeoff roll.

ATC recording: https://clyp.it/jrvdzhrw

Listening to the ATC recording. So professional all round. Well done to all.:ok:

well played captain and crew. very composed and good work from crews on the ground.

Looks like a massive uncontained failure on the left engine!! Its shot to sh*t





http://www.airliners.net/uf/194186/1441758970P97XRv.png



Hats off to the crew for getting everyone off safe and sound.

Here is the ATC recording:

https://clyp.it/jrvdzhrw

It appears that the slides were deployed on the fire affected side of the AC also?

Have to wonder about ETOPS (or whatever it is called these days) special maintenance .

Those passengers need to have their hand luggage collected up and crushed. The 'my hand luggage takes priority over your life' attitude infuriates me. Idiots.

Why would ETOPS maintenance have anything to do with the fire? It wouldn't of mattered if it had 4 engines, a fire is well a fire !

Brilliantly handled, another British Airtours Manchester 1985 averted. The AAIB made numerous recommendations after this accident and they seem to have paid off.

http://impdb.org/images/thumb/f/f0/P...6_CIMG5044.jpg

Top job by all concerned it would appear, apart from the idiots with bags...

A failure this serious resulting in a fire this severe could have been a different story if it had occurred past V1; I expect this to have repercussions.