Originally Posted by
leongood
1. Just how common is an engine fire?
2. What percentage of engine fires result in fatalities?
3. Given the exact moment of the fire, did the crew do an amazing job, or what? I guess a fire two seconds before take-off would be more testing...
4. Does the 737-200 have a particular problem?
5. Is there somewhere I can look for a report to see exactly what happened on my flight.
Thanks very much, LG
www.avherald.com
A Continental Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N13113 performing flight CO-77 from Bristol,EN (UK) to Newark,NJ (USA) with 156 passengers, diverted to Birmingham,EN (UK) after the crew reported problems with the right hand engine (RB211) a few minutes after takeoff. The airplane landed safely in Birmingham 25 minutes after takeoff.
The flight was cancelled, the passengers were brought to hotels and departed to the US the following day.
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It's listed as an incident, so that's relatively bad from a pax perspective, but it's not an accident or a crash, which are worse. Doesn't list engine fire, which if you search, several others do. Engine fire is not common, but there have been a handful thus far this year.