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British Airways flight was forced to make emergency landing at Heathrow with engine on fire

Tired engineers completed work on the WRONG PLANE


UK Daily Mail

A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow with one engine on fire after exhausted engineers worked on the wrong aircraft.

Passengers were left terrified when the covers of both engines flew off and one of them burst into flames on the flight of an A319 from London to Oslo in May 2013. The pilot was forced to return to the airport on one damaged engine, making an emergency landing while the plane scattered chunks of metal, some weighing up to 37kg, across the runway. Read more:

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