n77j
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Mayday British Airways 268 LAX-LHR could not make to LHR
SN30952 writes "Saturday, just an hour after take-off, there was a power surge through engine number 2 on the port side of the British Airways B747 in flight BA 268 from LAX to LHR, with 351 passengers on board.
The pilot switched off the broken engine.
The flight continued over the US on 3 engines.
This gave the captain time to calculate that the plane could make it safely to London Heathrow (LHR).
Once over the Atlantic Ocean BA 268 experienced some unexpected headwind, which depleted its fuel reserves.
Here the captain saw it could not make it to LHR and decided to make a landing in Manchester and made a mayday call asking to land at Manchester, where he landed at around 4pm on Sunday
BA confirmed that the pilot had made a "diversion landing" but stressed that he was following normal procedure. Manchester Airport confirmed that staff had been put on a "full emergency alert"."
SN30952 writes "Saturday, just an hour after take-off, there was a power surge through engine number 2 on the port side of the British Airways B747 in flight BA 268 from LAX to LHR, with 351 passengers on board.
The pilot switched off the broken engine.
The flight continued over the US on 3 engines.
This gave the captain time to calculate that the plane could make it safely to London Heathrow (LHR).
Once over the Atlantic Ocean BA 268 experienced some unexpected headwind, which depleted its fuel reserves.
Here the captain saw it could not make it to LHR and decided to make a landing in Manchester and made a mayday call asking to land at Manchester, where he landed at around 4pm on Sunday
BA confirmed that the pilot had made a "diversion landing" but stressed that he was following normal procedure. Manchester Airport confirmed that staff had been put on a "full emergency alert"."