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Incident: British Airways B744 at Chicago on Sep 3rd 2017, engine
failure
A British Airways Boeing 747-400, registration G-BNLY performing
flight BA-294 from Chicago O'Hare,IL (USA) to London Heathrow,EN (UK), was
climbing out of Chicago's runway 28R when the left inboard engine (RB211)
emitted a series of bangs prompting the crew to stop the climb at 15,000 feet
and return to Chicago reporting a #2 engine exceedance, the engine was
experiencing vibrations. The aircraft entered a hold over Lake Michigan and
landed safely back on O'Hare's runway 28C about 2 hours after
departure.
A ground observer reported there were about 5 to 7 loud bangs that
caused a lot of people on the ground to look up, streaks of flame could be seen
from the inboard left engine.
According to information The Aviation Herald received the engine
suffered a number of surges.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 19 hours after
landing back.
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