British Airways Plane Explodes on Las Vegas Runway | World's Worst Flights | Channel 5

September 2015 Ellie and Paul Wooldridge had traveled from London for a two-week holiday to celebrate their 50th birthdays download things rent in all the hotels or the rollercoaster rides down the Grand Canyon reserve 10 days there's just so much to see though and what much more than that from the 50th birthday it's fantastic on the 8th of September Elian Paul's dream holiday came to an end they headed back to Vegas is bustling McCarran Airport for their journey home we left about 2:00 in the afternoon just a normal beautiful red hot sunny day I sort of know you're gonna be on the long flight again and you get a bit just want to get home now CCTV from that afternoon showed the airport working normally it was a sunny warm 38 degree day with light cloud cover perfect conditions for flying W entry 6-0 at 5:00 firmly feather market alpha eat food fatigue r22 protection as the plane began to accelerate one of the passengers decided to film the takeoff started airing down a runway and I thought was getting really close to Titan Osprey literally just waiting for a line to tilt back a little bit there was a large Bank and the plainly sort of poor to the left as soon as you hear that bang and you think what is that you know something's wrong straightaway but you don't know what he is the passengers video had caught the plane going over what seemed like a small bump up in the cockpit even the sound had also been heard by captain Chris Henke it's almost like a dull thud really initial thought that it could have been a tire blowing and in the plane sort of stops and I started I'm doing all the seatbelts like everyone's standing up stewardess he starts I'd sit down sit down it's only a puncher I looked out the window I said some water that's not puncher we're getting off then wings are full out with you just that visions have been burnt alive on this plane you just imagine the flights gonna turn into a massive fire but when he second and so yeah it was scary in the cockpit captain Chris Henke was unaware how serious the fire was the thing was that we couldn't say anything there's just a spray shadow behind us all Chris had to go on was a fire alarm alerting him to an engine fire so he tried to extinguish it you've got to fire handles it'll be lit up red or whichever app engine is on fire and he pulled out and then he twisted fire extinguishers for aircraft engines are only effective if the fire is contained inside the engine structure this explosion had destroyed the engine casing so when Chris deployed the fire extinguishers they had no effect and the fire was getting worse you are facing a massive fuel leak because you've got a hole in your fuel tank in your wing and you've got the flames there already from a hot engine that can deteriorate really rapidly and we can actually end up in an explosive situation 27 seconds after the fire broke out Chris radioed air-traffic control who had already alerted the emergency services by the way it's like you're in a bubble everything's going on around you but it's not sort of slow motion passengers could see the fire spreading leaking fuel was now burning on the runway we could hear people screaming and shouting so I asked the other first Opstal to go down the back just to assess the situation one of the pilots Rendon looked out the window and then he ran back I looked at him I said does it Barry said yes that's how bags are very bad I start to panic like I want to get off when you get off but because like you're still on it and all the doors are shut and look at thinking I'm not going to get off this [Music] thanks B first recitation credit part never did paper 2013 thick heavy fire services are on the way 91 seconds after the first sign of smoke captain Chris Hankey ordered an evacuation all of a sudden you get emergency evacuation emergency evacuation and then you just see like all these stewardesses they run to their exits all 157 passengers prepared to evacuate me and a wife we literally go on the same time as the steward the island dawn we watching the thing fall down should white white white no thinking I just want to get off tuna get off only three of the eight emergency slides could be used and then as soon as the chute comes down and he said right you can go I was down didn't even went on and they like pull come straight down behind me and it's just looked that way didn't even you don't just run they said that it's gonna blow to run twenty-one thousand gallons of fuel were held in the three tanks near the fire and look to the right and it was just a massive all the fire and who's literally running for our lives and for krauser Rama [Music] once safely away from the raging fire Ellie started filming on her mobile phone you turn on and you just stand there looking at it the middle of the plane you can't see is at the fire and the smoke it was just unbelievable and you're just standing there watching anything I just got that as Captain Chris was not leaving the plane until all his passengers have been safely evacuated then air traffic control were told the remaining crew would be leaving the plane we are evacuating on rurally we have a fire I repeat we are evacuating the cabin manager came and said captain everybody's off I was thinking of going down to check myself but does this smoke everywhere I thought it would be a bit dangerous to do it so the three for the flight deck we went down the side and then sort of started herding the passengers together what was meant to have been his penultimate flight would now signal the end of Chris's 42 year flying career a bit sad anyway I do lots of emotions because I knew that was it for me flying wise oh just please that everybody was fine Chris's quick reactions on the runway bringing the plane to a safe stop trying to extinguish the fire at the crew carrying out a swift evacuation resulted in no serious injuries so when Chris met with the passengers he was given a hero's welcome everyone just give him a round of applause yeah we just all priest for all to be over he did not really power and shaken but it was good he explained everything what would happen well we we did our job basically and you know all the crew to co-pilots know the tanks haven't we we all did a great job Elian Paul had escaped physical injury but the memory of this flight still after scar 24 hours later the airline booked them on to another plane home coming home that was really really awake my wife she was using a real mess and I literally had to folks wanted a plane it's not easy to get it out your head hmm I didn't want to go on the plane again I was gonna bug okay put me on a baby images taken by an investigation team revealed the damage suffered by the aircraft the cause of the fire was discovered to be a circular metal spool deep in the heart of the engine during takeoff it had fractured and torn through the structure around it the images also show how close the resulting fire had come to reaching the inside of the cabin everyone on board that had a lucky escape you you

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020