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Safety Podcast, New Safety, Safety Learning, Human Performance, Safety II, Operational Learning
This episode is a gift from Oil and Gas Denmark. Peter Burkill was the pilot of the ill-fated BA 038. He has a story to tell and does he ever tell it. Listen carefully, there is much here.
British Airways Flight 38 (
call sign Speedbird 38) is a scheduled flight operated by
British Airways from Beijing, China to London, United Kingdom. On 17 January 2008, local time 12:32
GMT, the
Boeing 777 used for the flight, having completed the 8,100-kilometre (4,400 nmi; 5,000 mi) trip, crash landed just short of the runway at its destination.
[1][2][3] There were no fatalities but from the 152 people on board, 47 people sustained injuries, one of them serious.
[4] The 150-
tonne aircraft was the first
Boeing 777-200ER to be
written off in the model's history,
[5][6] and the first
hull loss of any Boeing 777. (wikipedia)
This episode is sponsored by ULWHS. Thanks to them