British-Airways-Flug „Sekunden vor der Katastrophe“, nachdem er über London abgewürgt wurde
British Airways flight ‘seconds from disaster’ after stalling over London
Von JackStrawWitchita
British-Airways-Flug „Sekunden vor der Katastrophe“, nachdem er über London abgewürgt wurde
British Airways flight ‘seconds from disaster’ after stalling over London
Von JackStrawWitchita
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A British Airways flight was just ‘seconds from disaster’ over London after a near-catastrophic error, it has been reported.
Sources claim that the Airbus A320 stalled on its approach to London Heathrow on Flight BA919 from Dusseldorf on July 6 after an air data systems failure.
Following the first officer’s failed attempt to fix the problem, it reportedly required physical intervention from the pilot.
The incident, which took place 4,000 feet above Canary Wharf, has been described as the ‘most serious “near miss” in the UK in years’.
‘To recover from this position is difficult, especially so low to the ground,’ the source said.
Senior figures also claimed that the plane almost suffered a ‘hull loss’, which is an aviation term for when an aircraft is seriously damaged or destroyed.
The captain of the flight is now understood to be on ‘stress leave’.
Meanwhile, the incident has been reported as a ‘loss of control in-flight’ and branded as being ‘pilot induced’.
I’m no expert but it sounds as if this plane could have plummeted to the ground somewhere in Zone 1 or 2 …
Takes some effort to select a photo of a BA narrow-body and find one of the few that isn’t some kind of A320…
Edit: looks like they’ve updated the article. Originally had a photo of an Embraer.
/u/JackStrawWitchita do you work for the Metro?
In your post you’ve hotlinked not to informative information about the article, but to general „metro.co.uk/tag/“ links.
Very difficult to stall an Airbus so I await a Mentour Pilot update on this one!
Another fine example of „journalism“ from the Metro.
Now imagine if it was a single pilot operation like the EU/AirBus are pushing.
Wow thats insane. I wonder what caused the stall and how it happened. There must have been some serious errors either on the telemetry or the pilots
How do you ‚almost suffer a hull loss‘ whilst recovering from a mid air stall?
Edit: ok I need another coffee – I read this as somehow while recovering from the stall it damaged the airframe
A much better source: https://avherald.com/h?article=53bf00f5&opt=0
Holy shit, can you imagine the disaster if a jet crashed into London?
I would have probably never step foot on a plane again if that happened to me, I experienced a go around last flight and that was pretty scary for me!
This is the actual report of the incident (from a database that curates all aviation incidents worldwide)
[https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/574118](https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/574118)
Sounds serious but relatively more under control vs the fearmongering in the article?
Just what I want to read when I fly with BA in two weeks 😭
I’m due to go on holiday in a month and all of these plane stories are really offputting