Aircraft Engine Failure
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During May 1993 I travelled on BA flights from Heathrow to Miami, USA and a couple of weeks later from Heathrow to St Petersburg, Russia. BOTH flights experienced engine failure and in both cases we returned to Heathrow, circled for some time to dump excess fuel and then descended for full emergency landings! In the case of the Miami flight the engine failure occurred near Shannon, Ireland, whilst the St Petersburg engine failure occurred close to Amsterdam.
In the case of the 2nd flight from Heathrow to St Petersburg, Russia I asked the flight stewardess whether such engine failures were common and she informed me that this was the 1st such failure in her long flying career, and yet I had 2 "back-to-back" engine failures in the same month!
David
Date submitted:Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:05:13 +0000Coincidence ID:6058
