Internal fire on Ethiopian Airlines 787 at London Heathrow

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: July 12, 2013

14 comments

Via BBC:

A Heathrow spokesman said: “We can confirm there has been an on-board internal fire involving an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft and the airport’s emergency services are in attendance.

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“The aircraft was parked on a remote parking stand. There were no passengers on board and there are no reported injuries at this time.

“Arrivals and departures are temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attend to this incident. This is a standard procedure if fire crews are occupied with an incident.”

Poor Boeing…

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Matt Guest

July 12, 2013, 6:39 pm

I was.diverted today because of this. pretty amusing to have people with cell connections fill us in more quickly than the captain after we landed.at Luton.

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Michael Member

July 12, 2013, 5:19 pm

@ wwk5d Ha Ha! Couldn't agree more.

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wwk5d Guest

July 12, 2013, 3:54 pm

"You sound like a jealous person with American envy" Oh please, not everyone who complains about/criticizes America does it because they are jealous or envious. Let me know where I can send you some money so you can buy a ladder to get over yourself.

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JAG Guest

July 12, 2013, 3:03 pm

I consider it cheap life insurance to not fly new airplanes for 3 years after launch.

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jorge Guest

July 12, 2013, 1:42 pm

The skin burned near the tail. How is that possible? usually you see this near the fuel tanks, did the APU catch fire? I pray that some idiot made a mistake and caused this fire. Otherwise it is the end for this plane, and possible for Boeing.

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