Thomas Cook Airlines Boeing 757 28A incident
Boeing 757 28A · Incident
From Milas Bodrum International Airport (BJV) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW)
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Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10WA059
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 757 28A
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 757
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- GTCBA Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Thomas Cook Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Milas Bodrum International Airport (BJV), Milas-Bodrum AiTo London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Gatwick Airport
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On June 12, 2010, at about 0045 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), a Thomas Cook Airlines Boeing 757-28A, registration number G-TCBA, while cruising at FL360, experienced a fuel leak from the left engine, a Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4-37 turbofan engine. The flight crew diagnosed the fuel leak and cross-fed fuel to correct the imbalance; however, the fuel leak persisted. The captain declared a PAN call and the airplane was cleared to make an approach to Runway 26L at London Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom. The airplane made an uneventful landing and no injuries were reported. The flight was a scheduled flight from Milas-Bodrum Airport, Turkey, to London Gatwick Airport. Subsequent investigation by the operator's maintenance engineers traced the source of the fuel leak to a pipe coupling at the high pressure fuel pump outlet on the left engine.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of United Kingdom. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Air Accidents Investigation Branch Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions Berkshire Copse Road Aldershot Hants GU11 2HH United Kingdom
Tel.: (44) 1252 510300 (44) 171 890 5999 (after hours) E-mail: enquiries@aaib.gov.uk Fax: (44) 1252 376999 AFTN: EGGCYLYX Telex: 858119 ACCINV G Website: http://www.dft.gov.uk
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of United Kingdom.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG10WA059
- Event ID
- 20101022X92907
- Case number
- ENG10WA059
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 1fed165f9b353c508ffd73d1eaf7f6cf80e0bc0db6ff037397f8400793fe0888; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:30:42.747Z.