DEAD Engines Seconds From Landing - Flight 038

This video breaks down British Airways Flight 38, the January 2008 Boeing 777 crash landing at Heathrow that was caused by ice silently blocking fuel flow to both engines during final approach. On the 17th of January 2008, BA38 was completing a ten and a half hour flight from Beijing to London Heathrow with 152 passengers and crew on board. Seconds before touchdown, both Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines lost power at the same time, leaving the crew with a 200 ton aircraft gliding toward the runway with no thrust. What followed was a split second decision by the flight crew and a two year investigation that changed how the aviation industry understands cold weather flying. What's covered in this video: How ten hours of extreme cold at cruising altitude allowed ice crystals to form inside the fuel without anyone knowing. Why the fuel oil heat exchanger, a component designed to warm fuel using engine oil, became the point of failure. The exact moment at 720 feet when the auto throttle called for more power and neither engine responded. The captain's decision to retract the flaps from 30 degrees to 25 degrees in under two seconds to stretch the glide. How the aircraft cleared the airport boundary fence by a matter of feet before landing short of runway 27. Why 47 people were injured but nobody on board died. What the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch found after pulling the fuel system apart component by component. How Rolls-Royce and Boeing changed cockpit procedure and redesigned the heat exchanger across the Trent 800 fleet. Mentioned in this video: British Airways Flight 38, Boeing 777, Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, fuel oil heat exchanger, Beijing to Heathrow route, Heathrow runway 27, UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch, Rolls-Royce, Boeing. Two engines that ran flawlessly for ten and a half hours went silent within seconds of each other on the same final approach, and the reason took investigators nearly two years to fully explain. ───────────────────────────── SOURCES ───────────────────────────── This video draws on the findings of the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which examined the fuel system, ran the aircraft's flight profile through cold chambers, and interviewed engineers who worked on the fuel oil heat exchanger design. It also references the guidance issued by Rolls-Royce and Boeing following the investigation, and the subsequent redesign of the heat exchanger across the Trent 800 fleet. Credits-All footage is used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) ───────────────────────────── LEGAL NOTICE & TRANSPARENCY ───────────────────────────── Entertainment Purposes: This video reconstructs a real aviation accident using publicly available investigation findings for informational and entertainment purposes. This is not professional aviation safety advice. 00:00 An Ordinary Thursday Landing 01:00 Ten Hours Through Siberian Cold 01:54 How Jet Engines Actually Run 02:45 Invisible Ice In The Fuel 02:58 Two Engines Go Silent 04:00 The Captain's Two Second Decision 04:36 Down In The Grass Short Of The Runway 05:38 Evacuation And Everyone Survives 06:15 Investigators Take The Fuel System Apart 07:36 A Design Flaw, Not A Fluke 08:34 Home For The Anniversary #Aviation #AviationHistory #YouTubeDocumentary #CommercialAviation #Concorde #Boeing #SupersonicTravel