British Airway 777 Documentary

David086 · 06-03-2011 12:57am #1

Anyone remember the BA flight 38 that crashed landed at Heathrow Airport a couple of years ago? There's going to be a documentary on National Geographic on Monday (March 7th) at 21:00. Should be interesting to see.

pclancy · 06-03-2011 1:33am

Can't find any website that I could watch that on.

Did find this ATC recording though...

http://flight-video.com/british-airways/2010/05/british-airways-flight-38-heathrow-crash-atc-recording/

scudzilla · 06-03-2011 1:40am

pclancy wrote: »

Can't find any website that I could watch that on.

Did find this ATC recording though...

http://flight-video.com/british-airways/2010/05/british-airways-flight-38-heathrow-crash-atc-recording/

Heard that before, VERY VERY NICE work by the guy in ATC

mle1324 · 06-03-2011 2:16am

It's the newest episode of Air Crash Investigation as far as I know.

David086 · 06-03-2011 2:38am

I remember watch Air Accident Investigation a day before I was going on my holidays when I was younger. Bad idea lol, was bloody sh!tting myself. :pac:

Danbo! · 06-03-2011 3:12am

Balls, dont have national geographic. Any online version available after it's aired?

Shaneboyle · 06-03-2011 12:57pm

Am looking forward to this one, Might be put up on youtube.

Just watched the Turkish Crash in Amsterdam on it the other day

Cessna_Pilot · 06-03-2011 2:59pm

There was something on Discovery about this recently..Showed the Captain wrestling with a sidestick after the engines quit!! How accurate:rolleyes:

David086 · 06-03-2011 3:41pm

If I find a website that has it I'll let you all know.

TheAnswer · 06-03-2011 7:55pm

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

There was something on Discovery about this recently..Showed the Captain wrestling with a sidestick after the engines quit!! How accurate:rolleyes:

It's an old saying, "never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

We've all seen the films with pax boarding a small regional airliner etc and then the scene cuts to a 747 taking off/landing.

Really annoying when they do it in documentaries (or docudramas as they are increasingly being called:rolleyes:) though, I mean, they're meant to be factual FFS!

Foggy43 · 06-03-2011 9:40pm

Cessna_Pilot wrote: »

There was something on Discovery about this recently..Showed the Captain wrestling with a sidestick after the engines quit!! How accurate:rolleyes:

I have played the trailer fo BA038 over and over. I cannot see a sidestick anywhere. Are you referring to another incident? I note you did mention the Discovery channel.
There was one incident with a BA aircraft. I doubted one part of the programme. I looked it up and found National Geographic's programme was done word for word from the AAIB's accident report.

Cessna_Pilot · 06-03-2011 9:51pm

Foggy43 wrote: »

I have played the trailer fo BA038 over and over. I cannot see a sidestick anywhere. Are you referring to another incident? I note you did mention the Discovery channel.
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ugh. it wasn't this particular show these guys above are talking about. It was a programme about air crashes in general and there was a five or ten minute segment about the fuel starvation 777.

Foggy43 · 06-03-2011 11:43pm

No problem!
As far as I am aware the investigators on BA038 know what happened. It is the 'why' that is still a problem. It looks as though for some unkown reason a snowball or slushball, one from the left and one right fuel tanks simultaneously blocked the fuel filters on route to the engines.

For those of you who do not have Sky I hope RTE2 will screen it soon.

Danbo! · 06-03-2011 11:56pm

Foggy43 wrote: »

I have played the trailer fo BA038 over and over. I cannot see a sidestick anywhere. Are you referring to another incident? I note you did mention the Discovery channel.
There was one incident with a BA aircraft. I doubted one part of the programme. I looked it up and found National Geographic's programme was done word for word from the AAIB's accident report.

Foggy, where are you watching the trailer?

Foggy43 · 07-03-2011 9:04am

On Sky. The National Geographic HD Channel on 526 and National Geographic +1 on 527.

Tenger · 07-03-2011 10:46am

scudzilla wrote: »

Heard that before, VERY VERY NICE work by the guy in ATC

Thanks for that. Hadn't heard it. ATC guy was very calm.
What struck me most was the lack of shock/surprise from him. No query to repeat or clarify, he immediately went into incident response mode. While the flightcrew got the aicraft down safely, he ensured that other aircraft were safely rerouted, the landing runway was changed and that others were alerted.

lord lucan · 07-03-2011 6:00pm

Next Mondays Air Crash Investigation is US 1549.

Danbo! · 07-03-2011 6:51pm

Tenger wrote: »

Thanks for that. Hadn't heard it. ATC guy was very calm.
What struck me most was the lack of shock/surprise from him. No query to repeat or clarify, he immediately went into incident response mode. While the flightcrew got the aicraft down safely, he ensured that other aircraft were safely rerouted, the landing runway was changed and that others were alerted.

I heard an ATC tape from an incident last year in which the tower at MCO asked "confirm" after the flight crew called "mayday, mayday, mayday"

He could probably see the plane from the tower. When he is informing emergency services he says location is threshold of 27L, so he probably saw the whole thing