- Date
- February 26, 1987, 21:35 local (Feb 27, 1987, 05:35 UTC)
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 11 minor, 375 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- GBDXKBoeing 747-236B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25383
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
A Boeing 747-236B crew evacuated all occupants via escape slides after returning to Los Angeles after receiving a specific bomb threat. One passenger sustained serious injury during the evacuation. According to a witness, the 370 passengers evacuated the acft in aprx 52 sec through 8 exits and using the escape slides. The two upper deck exits were not used and the two over the wing exits had been blocked to accommodate more passenger seats. The seriously injured passenger sustained a broken ankle from a collision with another passenger on the slide. According to one of the cabin crewmembers, the injured passenger was hit from the rear as she was getting off the bottom of the slide and she fell onto the airport's asphalt ramp surface. She was treated at the lax medical center and released. She elected to continue her travel on the next available flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- GBDXK
- Reported as
- Boeing 747-236B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22303
- Airframe hours
- 16,621
- Engine
- Rolls-Royce RB-211, 18,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Registered owner
- British Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- EGLL · London, Of
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LAX · Los Angeles Intl, runway 24L, 10,285 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,400 total · 5,589 in this make and model · 6,826 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 320° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAX