Information has emerged of an incident that could have turned serious involving today’s British Airways Tokyo to London service, resulting in a delay.
Such details have been released by local Japanese media over the course of today.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
British Airways Flight BA6 – Tokyo to London…
British Airways flight BA6, which suffered the serious incident, is a routine scheduled flight between Tokyo Haneda and London Heathrow.
The aircraft involved in the incident at the Japanese airport was G-ZBKD.
As per data from Planespotters.net, G-ZBKD is a 10.6 year old Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that was delivered to the airline back in November 2015.
Of the 787-9 variant, British Airways has 18 of them in their fleet, of which 17 are in active service, and one is parked, with an average fleet age of 10.0 years.
As well as the 787-9, the UK carrier has the following other aircraft in their mainline fleet:
- 22 Airbus A319s.
- 94 Airbus A320s.
- 31 Airbus A321s.
- 18 Airbus A350s.
- 12 Airbus A380s.
- 59 Boeing 777s.
- 12 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners.
- 12 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners.
- 20 Embraer E190s.
In total, the airline has 298 aircraft in their fleet, of which 287 are in active service and 11 are parked, with an average fleet age of 14.6 years.
Data from Flightradar24 shows that British Airways flight BA6 departed from Tokyo around 90 minutes late.
At the time of publication, the aircraft is still flying and is currently over Greenland as it continues it’s passage towards London Heathrow.
It is understood this incident took place during the taxi out of Tokyo Haneda Airport.
What Was The Serious Incident?
Local Japanese media reports state that onboard British Airways flight BA6 Tokyo to London, a cell phone started smoking in the cabin.
From there, the aircraft was forced to turn around back to the gate, so then the smoking phone could be disposed of, as well as for an inspection to be made to the aircraft.
Reports state that cabin crew were able to contain the situation quickly, thus preventing any additional damage to the airplane as a result.
Ultimately the inspections clearly didn’t show anything that would disrupt the operation of the flight restarting, so they sent it out with a delay, and will look to land safely into London Heathrow.
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