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BMI Emergency Landing In Mauritania

seansasLCY From Hong Kong, joined Mar 2007, 725 posts, RR: 0
Posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 10998 times:

Apparently a BMI 757 has made an emergency landing in Mauritania after its engine caught fire. Anybody know anymore?

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oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6225 posts, RR: 11
Reply 1, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 10767 times:

Only thing I can find is this

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/08/25/45s591007.htm

A British passenger plane of Boeing 757 owned by BMI company was on Wednesday forced to land at the Nouakchott international airport, security sources told Xinhua.

The pilot noticed that one of the plane's engines had caught fire and immediately contacted the airport's control tower to allow him to land in the Mauritanian capital within few minutes.

The plane which was coming from Freetown and destined to London was carrying 108 passengers most of whom were Africans.

No human life was lost in the incident and the fire was put off by the airport's fire fighters.

Edit

And it seems it was G-STRY which flew the outbound as BMI967 yesterday from LHR.

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rcair1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 950 posts, RR: 25
Reply 2, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 10070 times:

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Quoting oly720man (Reply 1):
The pilot noticed that one of the plane's engines had caught fire

This just cracked me up - so he (she) just noticed it, huh? Glad it was a non-event - but apparently it was still burning when landed? If that is true - bad situation.

Reminds of a joke....

-Pilot says... sorry to inform you we've lost engine #4 due to a fire... burning rather nicely out there....

rcair1

ua777222 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3348 posts, RR: 13
Reply 3, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8706 times:

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An Astraeus Boeing 757-200 on behalf of BMI, registration G-STRY performing flight 5W-968/BD-968 from Freetown (Sierra Leone) to London Heathrow,EN (UK) with 110 people on board, was enroute near Nouakchott (Mauritania) when the crew needed to shut an engine (RB211) down following a couple of engine surges. The airplane diverted to Nouakchott for a safe landing at 02:30L (02:30Z).

A replacement Airbus A321 registration G-MEDL has been dispatched to Nouakchott.

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kimberlyrj From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2008, 385 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 5651 times:

Hello

I hope the passengers have been kept well informed of what’s going on, often this can be one of the worst faults of an airline when something goes wrong – delays/things going wrong with no explanation.

I guess this incident shows that as long as the crew are well trained then a problem which could have turned into a major incident remains only an inconvenience.

Welcome to the pilots of the B752.

Kimberly

Ps. I hope BMi put the pax up in a nice hotel and not just left them at the airport for hours.

IADCA From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2007, 976 posts, RR: 7
Reply 5, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 5563 times:

Quoting kimberlyrj (Reply 4):
Ps. I hope BMi put the pax up in a nice hotel

I take it you don't know a whole lot about Mauritania.

henry71 From Austria, joined Jan 2010, 9 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (2 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 4871 times:

sorry for the pax, i was in nouakchott in 2008...

kimberlyrj From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2008, 385 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (2 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 3906 times:

Quoting IADCA (Reply 5):
I take it you don't know a whole lot about Mauritania.

I have never visited I am afraid to say...

Kimberly.

Vasu From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 3772 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (2 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3530 times:

Quoting kimberlyrj (Reply 7):

How bad is it?

babybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3537 posts, RR: 6
Reply 9, posted (2 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 3193 times:

Luckily they were all African passengers so I guess it's immaterial where they had to put down. It all looks the same. Be the same for us Europeans having to land in Europe somewhere.

I take it BMI are chartering aircraft off Astreus?

and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.

Vasu From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 3772 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (2 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2990 times:

Quoting babybus (Reply 9):
It all looks the same

Personally, I would disagree - Africa is an extremely vast and contrasting continent!

Quoting babybus (Reply 9):
Be the same for us Europeans having to land in Europe somewhere.

So... you're saying that you'd feel relatively 'at home' if your plane diverted to Moldova or Albania (for example) ?

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