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Incident: Delta B752 at Las Vegas on Sep 6th 2017, engine fire   A Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N686DA performing flight DL-1057 (sched. dep Sep 5th) from Las Vegas,NV to New York JFK,NY (USA), was climbing out of Las Vegas' runway 26R and was about to be handed off to departure, when the crew declared emergency, declined the hand off stating they wanted to remain with tower and advised they needed to return to Las Vegas now. Tower cleared the flight for a left downwind runway 26L, the crew advised they did have a left engine (PW2037) fire and the engine was shut down. The aircraft landed safely on runway 26L about 12 minutes after departure. Attending emergency services reported seeing some smoke from the engine, a few minutes later the fire chief advised the fire was out. The crew subsequently advised the fire indication was out, too, and requested to taxi to the apron. The crew advised they had no fire bottle available anymore and requested fire engines to follow the aircraft and cover the right hand engine, the aircraft taxied to the apron with all fire engines following the aircraft.   A replacement Boeing 757-200 registration N535US reached New York with a delay of 7:45 hours.

 

Incident: British Airways B772 at London on Sep 6th 2017, engine shut down in flight   A British Airways Boeing 777-200, registration G-VIIH performing flight BAW-82GD from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Athens (Greece), was in the initial climb out of Heathrow's runway 27L when the crew received a number of fault messages for the right hand engine's (GE90) FADEC. The crew shut the engine down, stopped the climb at 6000 feet and returned to Heathrow for a safe landing on runway 27R about one hour after departure.   Main flight BA-632 from Heathrow to Athens was flown by a Boeing 767-300 registration G-BZHB which departed on schedule about 20 minutes after BA-82 and is currently on the way back as BA-633. According to flight plan G-VIIH was assigned callsign BAW-82GD with flight number BA-632Y as a second flight.   A replacement Boeing 777-200 registration G-VIIM departed with a delay of about 6 hours and is estimated to reach Athens with a delay of 6 hours.   The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in London about 7 hours after landing back.