It has emerged that a British Airways Boeing 777, operating a flight from Chicago to London diverted to Goose Bay due to the smell of burning rubber onboard.
Information has been released pertinent to this incident, which we will get into in this article.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
British Airways Flight BA298 – Chicago to London: Goose Bay Diversion…
British Airways flight BA298, which diverted to Goose Bay, is a routine scheduled flight between Chicago and London Heathrow.
Also, the aircraft involved in the incident was G-VIIB.
As per data from Planespotters.net, G-VIIB is a 27.6 year old Boeing 777-200ER that was delivered to the airline in May 1997.
Of the 777-200ER variant, British Airways has 43 of them in their fleet.
Furthermore, of that 43, all but two are in active service, with an average fleet age of 24.4 years.
Moreover, as well as the 777-200ER variant, BA has the following other aircraft in their mainline fleet:
- 29 Airbus A319s.
- 89 Airbus A320 Family aircraft.
- 25 Airbus A321 Family aircraft.
- 18 Airbus A350-1000s.
- 12 Airbus A380s.
- 16 Boeing 777-300ERs.
- 38 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Family aircraft.
- 4 Dornier Do-328 JETs.
- 20 Embraer E190s.
British Airways flight BA298, which diverted to Goose Bay, departed Chicago at 2146 local time on July 11 and initially tracked east towards London Heathrow.
As per The Aviation Herald, it is understood the aircraft departed three hours late due to an electric probllem.
Around 200 nautical miles south of Goose Bay, the crew decided to track north towards the Canadian airport and divert.
The aircraft landed safely without further incident, and did not declare an emergency during this diversion.
Aircraft Grounded Following Smell of Burning Rubber…
It is understood that G-VIIB, the aircraft involved in the incident of the smell of burning rubber on British Airways flight BA298 Chicago-London, was grounded in Goose Bay following this.
Data from RadarBox highlights that the aircraft was grounded for nearly three days.
From there, a positioning flight was made back to London Heathrow, where the aircraft got back to base on July 14.
The aircraft was grounded again overnight until 1354 local time on July 15, where the aircraft operated the BA299 service to Chicago.
Since that flight, it has operated the following segments:
- BA299 – London Heathrow to Chicago.
- BA298 – Chicago to London Heathrow.
- BA125 – Heathrow to Manama (Still in-flight at the time of publication).
No further incidents have been reported with the aircraft following that incident.
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