KLAS British Airways Flight 2276 Fire on the Ground

[mk223]

A British Airways jet has caught fire at Las Vegas airport sending smoke billowing into the air.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/09/british-airways-plane-catches-fire-at-las-vegas-airport

Audio is from LAS Tower #1 and ground.

[Vass22]

Thanks for the audio. The Speedbird pilots had a tough time getting through to the controller, but she saw the fire herself and did a good job sending Delta for the go-around.

Re, the videos under the news link: Disappointing to see how manu passengers took SUITCASES with them for the evacuation. The practice really needs to be made illegal, and a warning given to passengers on the safety briefing.

[ClarenceL]

Wonder how many hours on that engine? Scary thing!

[VASAviation]

Thanks for posting!!!

Working on a video since nowww!!

[VASAviation]

Could anyone tell at what point it exactly caught fire?

They stopped on the runway right? Anyone knows at what point approximately?

[VASAviation]

Anyone help me out to transcribe this part? Thanks!

[1:47]
-[......] Ground, approved as requested
-Ground, [....] 7 ?
-[...] 7, Ground. Go ahead?
-Yeah, if you ahven't already done so... obviously Im close runway 7L
[1:57]

I missed that equipment callsign

[VASAviation]

Could anyone tell at what point it exactly caught fire?

They stopped on the runway right? Anyone knows at what point approximately?

I respond myself, it seems they stopped just at A7

I missed that equipment callsign

After hearing several times, I hear 'Cannibal' ?¿?¿?

[JetScan1]

Yeah, if you ahven't already done so... obviously Im close runway 7L

Yeah if you haven't already done so ah obviously ah close runway ah seven left

After hearing several times, I hear 'Cannibal' ?¿?¿?

County Mobile Seven

[VASAviation]

Awesome!!! Thank you JetScan1

[tyketto]

Yeah, if you ahven't already done so... obviously Im close runway 7L

Yeah if you haven't already done so ah obviously ah close runway ah seven left

After hearing several times, I hear 'Cannibal' ?¿?¿?

County Mobile Seven

this is correct.

The ground operations outside of the Ground controller (read: Ramp controller) is operated by the Clark County Dept. of Aviation. So it is the county that controls the maintenance there, not the airport itself.

BL.

[NEILCM]

Classic BAW, His planes on fire and he is talking like he is asking for a straw in Mcdonalds!! So Calm.

[VASAviation]

Here's the video!

Thanks for cooperating on it!

[scottzdc]

To clarify, in the United States the airport authority decides which parts of the airport may be used at any time by the air traffic controllers.

Obviously a controller isn't going to use a runway where there is a disabled aircraft, but the airport authority was notifying the local controller that runway 07L was closed until further notice.

[Mirlady]

What is  the British pilot  saying?
" BAW 2276  heavy. We are evacuating on the runway. We have a fire ....??... and we are evacuating."

[bcradio]

"... we have a fire, I repeat, and we are evacuating. "

[Mirlady]

thanks

[VASAviation]

Yep, he said "I repeat"

I corrected on Youtube, thanks!

[cptbrw]

http://avherald.com/h?article=48c10434&opt=0

[bumman2]

Just an observation from watching the videos and listening to the passenger interviews it seems like the only people who knew that plane was on fire was the
passengers on the left side by the engine.  One passenger on the right side said they couldn't figure out why the left side passengers were running towards the doors.  He said the flight attendants were still telling people that everything was okay and to remain seated.  One passenger interviewed said that one of the pilots came out of the cockpit and told people to sit down but then saw the fire and started yelling to evacuate.  Another passenger said when the flight crew finally opened the doors the smoke started coming into the cabin and the flight attendants started to panic.   

My thought is that if the crew had waited any longer to evacuate this could have ended badly.  Am I wrong here?