British Airways Boeing 747 caught fire at Castellon Airport, Spain
 

BREAKING A British Airways Boeing 747 caught fire at Castellon Airport, Spain

Somebody forgot a mobile on charge?

Do they fly the route with a B747 or is it a diversion?

Being stored, all the BA jumbos have been retired

Its CIVD
looks like a fire in cockpit roof above cockpit windows
these two havent been broken yet, engines still on them
videos and clips are around on the net

Allegedly someone hacked into an oxygen pipe!

Here's a video link

I wonder what was the source of ignition. Someone having a crafty fag while they work or was there any grease around?

Sad sight though. An iconic image for 2020.

Reminds me of a similar incident on a brand new A340 in Paris during maintenance in the early 1990's . Someone pulled out some boxes caused an electrical short circuit, resulting in a fire, the guy was alone , by the time time he ran out to get help and a fire extinguisher, the fire was too large to be put out. the aircraft was completely destroyed in the end if I remember. **** happens .
On another matter , the dense back smoke and the duration of the fire show how retardant the materials around the cockpit are in reality :rolleyes:

I thought so too - are they really that flammable? That looks like a fairly intense fire (or smoky, anyway!), and something that would cause absolute havoc in the air. Or would an onboard fire extinguisher put that out in no time in flight?

Apparently the reg is G-CVID....sounds too good to be true....!

The BCF extinguishers onboard are VERY effective, using more than one on any onboard fire is very rare.

In a flight situation I doubt this sort of thing would have got beyond the smell of burning and a bit of smoke. The pilots would have got straight on to the oxygen masks and PA'd the cabin crew to get in their immediately to run through their drills.

If - as gas path posted - it's being fed by an O2 pipe, just about anything will burn...

Interesting... I'd have thought it would have made sense to drain the oxygen systems for storage, but maybe there's a reason not to

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The reg is G-CIVD

Are those in storage or being dismantled?

Quoting from the same source of that video I posted:-

An unused two-story, fifteen-metre-high Boeing 747 aircraft had been parked at the airport on the Mediterranean coast of Spain waiting to be scrapped when the fire broke out.

It's being scrapped, apparently the process hasn't started yet

It has now.

https://www.pprune.org/spectators-ba...lus-stock.html

I think we can scratch Lot 169.

Makes You wonder who is doing the dismantling and for how much.