My Dad's experience of a near-miss air crash

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  • Interviewee name: Simon Dore

  • Date of event: 1 Mar 2002

  • Approximately one hour after departing Sydney on a regular passenger transport flight to Bangkok, Thailand, the Boeing 747-436 aircraft, registration G-BNLD, sustained a failure of the right inboard (number-3) engine, necessitating a return to Sydney airport where an uneventful one-engine inoperative landing was made. Simon Dore (My Dad) was on board and staring at the engine when it blew up.. it didn't feel so uneventful from where he was sitting!

  • Air crash engine failure British Airways Sydney

2 Comments so far

from STEVE PALMER 05th Nov 2010, 02:00

I think this is what is known as a "near-death experience". Interesting that Simon was able think he was about to die, and yet to keep calm and "decide to enjoy it". It would be nice to think that was possible for all of us. Be sure to stick with this to the end - the stills of the damaged engine tell their own story.

from Stuart Prebble 02nd Apr 2010, 04:43

Good heavens! I'd have been terrified and never got on a plane again..... Great post Tom, very well done. More please....... SP