Boeing's 777 is a very fine aircraft, and British Airways is, certainly, up with the best of the tier 1 carriers in terms of operations, training, and maintenance. Yet, a BA 777 crashed just short of the runway at Heathrow, BA's home base, in an accident that, despite hundreds of witnesses, crew statements, full access to flight recorders and systems data, and complete airframe, took several years of investigation and trials before it was fully understood. Travelling a fair bit in my work, and interested to understand in what had happened to go so wrong, I noted this reference in a professional avaiation forum:
"Peter Burkill was captain of British Airways Flight 38, a Boeing 777 with 152 aboard, when it suffered an uncommanded dual engine rollback and crashed short of the runway at Heathrow on January 17, 2008. This is what he experienced, in his words." website: http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast/AudioPodcast_CaptainPeterBurkill_BritishAirways_HeathrowCrash_202246-1.html. Direct link to Podcast: http://www.avweb.com/podcast/files/2010-03-29_PeterBurkill-HeathrowCrashCaptain.mp3 I found his description compelling, and I hope that people find it so. Incidentally, somewhile after the accident, the captain left BA for a few months. He has since rejoined, as a 777 captain again. Though the AVweb site has a second podcast interviewing Peter after he left BA, its content - discussing mainly why he left - is not really relevant anymore since he has since returned. (The word around that time was that BA's chief exec personally had a hand in getting him back.) Hoping people find it of interest, regards, Atlantic -- Atlantic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88138 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
