ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 145109
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| Date: | Friday 28 April 2000 |
| Time: | 14:05 |
| Type: |  Boeing 747-436 |
| Owner/operator: | British Airways |
| Registration: | G-BNLY |
| MSN: | 27090/959 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1993 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 450 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tokyo, Japan |
| London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Speedbird flight 6 was inbound on a flight from Tokyo to London. The Boeing 747 was on approach to runway 09R at Heathrow. During the approach a British Midlands flight (Flight BD151, calling "Midland One November Zulu") an Airbus A320, was cleared to take off on runway 09R for a short flight to Brussels. Air Traffic Control saw the danger and told BA flight Speedbird 6 to abort it's landing. The Boeing 747 flew over the A320 with an estimated minimum vertical separation of 112 feet (+/- 20 feet).
BA flight Speedbird 6 landed safely after circling Heathrow. No injuries sustained to the 450 persons on board the Boeing 747 and the 96 on board the Airbus A320. Contemporary press reports (see link #4) described the incident as "the closest air miss at Heathrow in 30 years".
The investigation revealed the following causal factors:
(1) The ATC mentor allowed the situation to develop to the point where 'Speedbird Six' could not be safely integrated with the departure of 'Midland One November Zulu'.
(2) When this became apparent, the initial actions of the mentor, on taking control of the RTF, were inappropriate.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/731550.stm
2. AAIB: http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/1-2001%20G-BNLY%20and%20G-MIDF.pdf
3. AAIB: http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/1-2001%20G-BNLY%20and%20G-MIDF%20Append.pdf
4. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/17/transport.world
5. CAA: https://siteapps.caa.co.uk/g-info/rk=BNLY
Images:
Graphic: AAIB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Apr-2012 13:14 | ryan | Added |
| 16-Oct-2013 20:52 | ryan | Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2016 11:50 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2016 11:50 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2016 11:52 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location] |
| 30-Aug-2019 05:59 | squarewheels | Updated [Narrative] |
| 30-Aug-2019 06:11 | harro | Updated [Location, Narrative, Photo, Accident report, ] |
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