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British Airways Flight 2276 was a scheduled passenger flight which caught fire during take-off from Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport on 8 September 2015, prompting an aborted take-off and the evacuation of all passengers and crew. The flight, bound for Gatwick Airport near London, had 157 passengers and 13 crew. The aircraft had suffered an uncontained engine failure in the left (#1) GE90 engine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20150910.aspx )〕 == Incident == The aircraft left Terminal 3, Gate E3, at 15:53 local time, and began its take-off from Runway 07L at 16:12 where the incident occurred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flight Info ) (Login required)〕 After noticing what the pilot later described as a "catastrophic failure of the engine"〔 well before take-off speed, the flight crew aborted the take-off by using the aircraft's brakes and ordered an evacuation of the aircraft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=13 hospitalized after British Airways fire in Las Vegas )〕 All passengers and crew escaped, with some suffering minor injuries. The airport's emergency services extinguished the fire within five minutes of the mayday call. Fourteen people were lightly injured, mostly from sliding down the escape chutes, and treated at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center. The fire caused a large hole in the cargo hold and damage to the engine. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) indicated the fire was caused by failure of the left General Electric GE90 engine, one of two fitted on the plane. The aircraft came to a halt upwind, causing the fire to be blown towards the fuselage; the aircraft sustained localized, but major, structural damage as a result. The aircraft was equipped with suppression systems, though the systems did not extinguish the fire.〔 The runway, one of four, was closed for four hours, and several inbound flights were cancelled.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://avherald.com/h?article=48c10434&opt=0 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Airways Flight 2276」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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