BA 777 div to TER
 

Understand that a BA 777 diverted into TER with an engine failure.
Rumours of a poss engine change. BA were quick off the mark and sent out relief aircraft for the pax but will such an incident impact upon ETOPS?

It wasn't me!
 

The only impact it might have is an extra trip - I am on reserve at the moment and it's a bit quiet.......

a mate of a collegue of mine called him around 4 o/c y'day (monday) to say that he was in the Azores on an unscheduled stop on his way home from Antigua. Spoke of engine fire, loads of flames, terrified passengers, all thought they were going to die, etc, etc. Unfortunately, this chap has already been on a fear of flying course to get him on an aeroplane in the first place! think he's going to swim home.

B777 divert
 

Yes its all true.
Engine change being carried out in the Azores.
2x BA 757s dispatched to recover the passengers & baggage.
No other B777s available in LON to cover so 2x75s used instead.:eek:

Anyone know the cause of the failure??

Who is shipping the engine over? Need a 747 Freighter to carry a Trent. (Suppose AN124 would do the trick too).

GE90's I think, not Trents.

POLET
 

Probably POLET did the AOG flight, they operated via PMI today with AN124.

Bristollre........there is spare 777 capacity around at the mo'......just not in the 2 class "charter" config of 42J/292M (only 3 a/c around in that config). The rest of the LGW a/c are in a 14F/56J/194M config......so sending 2x 757s was prob a sensible decision for once.

Ref IIP at TER, looks like it will NOT be an engine change, hopefully will ferry back later today or tomorrow. more technical details later

AN124 .......
 

...... if you ever need a AN124 there's always one and sometimes six, ready to roll from SNN ....... the Shannon guys even had the Daddy of them all out there a few weeks ago, the AN225 ..... now there's not many of those around! .......

cheers .....

Aircraft (VIIP) suffered an inflight surge and an engine was shutdown.
The engine was boroscoped, the FADEC was changed along with the VSV actuators and should ferry home sometime Wednesday. I think there are still some high power runs to do.

Hobie:

There is just the one isn't it?

SNN An124s
 

There is just one An225 Miyra in commerical use, operated by Antonov Design Bureau. Volga Dnepr have an EU Mx base in SNN thats why you see them there.
Otherwise SNN often used as a tech stop for heavy USA/Canada flights with these beasts ex-Central Europe.
The other people, POLET also pass thru from time to time enroute to North America.

waz it a Trent or GE????

Wilco
Twas a GE90-85b.

Gas Path

Any big deal, or just some internal broken bits and a little flame out the tail pipe to fixate the sleepy passengers?

Lomy

I believe the cause of the failure was one of the VSV actuators had a feedback LVDT fail, the FADEC then decided all by itself ;) to close the stator vanes (bearing in mind this was a couple of hours into the cruise!), the engine didn't like this much, coughed a couple of times and ran down, it was subsequently shut down and the a/c diverted.
The wiring looms and indeed the LVDTs have given trouble in the past.

IIP supposed to have got back to LGW late yesterday afternoon

Engine problems
 

Think you got the engine type wrong. BA have three types of engines on their B777's. 3 ac with GE90-76B G-ZZZA, B and C. The GE90-90B on G-VIIA etc and Trent 895 on G-YMMA etc.