British Airways flight 2019
| British Airways flight 2019 | |
|---|---|
.jpg) The affected machine in 2012 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Fire due to structural failure when refueling |
| place |
Denver International Airport , Colorado , United States
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| date | September 5, 2001 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 26th |
| Fatalities on the ground | 1 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
Boeing 777-236ER
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| operator |
 British Airways
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| Mark |
G-VIIK
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| Departure airport |
London Gatwick Airport , England , United Kingdom
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| Destination airport |
Denver International Airport , Colorado , United States
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| Passengers | 10 |
| crew | 16 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On the British Airways flight 2019 (flight number: BA2019 ) came on 5 September 2001 to a fatal incident when in fueling a Boeing 777-236ER of British Airways on the Denver International Airport broke a fire. An airport employee was killed in the accident. This is the first fatal incident involving a Boeing 777.
machine
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 777-236ER. The final assembly of the machine was carried out at Boeing’s plant in Renton , Washington, and completed its maiden flight on January 22, 1998, before being delivered to British Airways on February 3, 1998 , which approved the machine with the aircraft registration G-VIIK . The aircraft had the factory number 28840, it was the 117th Boeing 777 from ongoing production. On November 27, 1992, the aircraft was leased to Asiana Airlines, which approved it with the new aircraft registration HL7229 . The twin- engined wide - body aircraft was equipped with two General Electric GE90-85B engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had had a cumulative operating performance of 11,221 operating hours with 2,100 take-offs and landings.
Passengers and crew
256 passengers had taken the original flight from London Gatwick Airport to Denver International Airport . At the time of the accident, most of the passengers had already left the aircraft, only ten of them were still on board. The crew of the machine was 16 people. It included a flight captain, a first officer, another pilot and 13 flight attendants.
the accident
The machine landed on Runway 16 at Denver International Airport at 4:56 p.m. and taxied to Gate A37. The engines were turned off at 5:06 p.m. and passengers began disembarking. A tank truck was parked under the left wing of the machine. The attendant connected two hoses to the machine's fuel distribution system and began pumping the kerosene into the tanks. During the process, the inner fuel hose suddenly detached from the aircraft, fluttering around and spraying fuel. The kerosene fumes ignited. The airport fire brigade's fire trucks arrived within two minutes and put out the fire. The machine was damaged but could later be repaired. The gas station attendant suffered fatal injuries.
root cause
A structural failure was found to be the cause of the accident. The machine's tank adapter ring was broken due to abnormal stress at the angle at which the tank hose was attached. The angular force applied occurred because the gas station attendant did not position the tanker optimally. Due to inattentiveness when lowering the tank lift platform, the tank hose got stuck and was pulled at an angle. This tensile force caused the adapter ring to break during refueling, whereupon the pressurized fuel formed vapors and then ignited.