ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 58562
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Date: | Saturday 24 January 2009 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 777-236ER |
Owner/operator: | British Airways |
Registration: | G-VIIH |
MSN: | 27490/70 |
Year of manufacture: | 1997 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 169 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Location: | Kano (KAN) -
Nigeria
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Abuja-Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (ABV/DNAA) |
Destination airport: | LHR |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Flight BA82 had departed from Abuja when smoke became visible in the cockpit and smell of smoke was noticed in the front of the passenger cabin.
The crew decided to divert to Kano. According to the NEXT web site, the plane had departed from Abuja just under six hours after its scheduled departure time of 10:15. The delay was due to "a fault with its air conditioning system", NEXT stated.
Sources:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aA4bGJz81OzE&refer=uk http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/1749672-147/NEXTBA82_makes_emergency_landing_in_Kano.csp
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
6 September 2017 |
G-VIIH |
British Airways |
0 |
London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) |
|
unk |
Bird strike |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Jan-2009 10:54 |
Certosino |
Added |
25-Jan-2009 10:59 |
harro |
Updated |
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