Heathrow Crash: No Evidence of Failure From RedOrbit THE engines on the British Airways' Boeing 777 that crash-landed at Heathrow airport last month showed "no evidence" of a mechanical defect or of a take-in of ice or a birdstrike, an accident investigation report said yesterday. It went on: "The autopilot and the autothrottle systems behaved correctly and the engine control systems were providing the correct commands prior to, during and after the reduction in thrust".

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Aerospace Notebook: Lease firm could make it an even 100 787s From Seattle Post Intelligencer For International Lease Finance Corp., 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners may be a good round number. On the sideline of this week's Singapore Air Show, ILFC founder and Chief Executive Steven Udvar-Hazy told reporters that the leasing giant was in talks with Boeing and Airbus for at least 286 more planes. ILFC is already Boeing's biggest 787 customer, with 74 on firm order. Although Hazy wants to buy more 787s, he is also in talks with Boeing about penalty payments for planes already on order. In...

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BA crash investigators focus on fuel system From Travel Weekly UK Investigators have ruled out mechanical engine failure as the cause of the crash landing by a British Airways Boeing 777 at Heathrow last month and are focusing on the fuel system. An interim report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department for Transport said the evidence points to "a restriction in the fuel supply or excessive aeration of the fuel".

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British Airways jet crash at Heathrow caused a masive fuel leak From Mirror.co.uk The evacuation of the British Airways jet that crash landed at Heathrow caused a massive fuel leak that could have blown up the plane, a report said yesterday. Sources said it was miraculous no fire broke out when the aircraft carrying 136 passengers and 16 crew crash-landed about 1,000ft short of the runway after the crew were unable to get the required engine thrust as it came in.

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Crash-landing inquiry investigates fuel pumps From Guardian Unlimited Investigators indicated that the crash could have been caused by damaged engine fuel pumps, which are designed to make the plane safer upon landing and take-off by siphoning fuel into separate fuel tanks for the right and left engines. Investigators found evidence of fuel pump damage that could have been caused by oxygen being mixed with the fuel, or of fuel being fed into the tanks at a dangerously low pressure. The AAIB said the evidence pointed to "either a restriction in the fuel supply...

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