BOTH engines GONE | British Airways CRASH in London
Added 2022-02-07 01:23:37 +0000 UTCOn January 17th, 2008, a mysterious failure caused a British Airways Boeing 777 to come crashing down just short of London’s Heathrow airport.
This was the first full loss of a 777 aircraft, which had been operating without serious issue since 1995. In a strange twist, the culprit in this accident seemed to vanish after the crash, leaving investigators puzzled.
Speculation was rife after the accident, with some saying that a software glitch may have downed the aircraft, or that there may have been radio interference from the prime minister’s motorcade which was passing nearby at the time. In the end, they found that the cause was both far simpler, and far more pernicious.
