British Airways Airbus A319 incident
Airbus A319 · Incident
From London Heathrow Airport (EGLL) to Oslo-Gardermoen International Airport (ENGM)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG13WA029
- 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
Airbus A319
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A319
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- G-EUOE
- Operator
- British Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From London Heathrow Airport (EGLL), LondonTo Oslo-Gardermoen International Airport (ENGM), Oslo
- 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
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of London, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
An Airbus A319-131, registration number G-EUOE, during departure from London-Heathrow International Airport, had the engine cowls from both International Aero Engines V2500 engines separate and fall on to the runway. The pilots declared a PAN and reported that they would return to Heathrow. During the approach to Heathrow, a fire occurred in the right engine. The pilots declared an emergency, shut down the right engine, and discharged both fire bottles. After the airplane landed and was stopped on the runway, the fire brigade extinguished a small fire in the right engine. The passengers and crew evacuated the airplane via the emergency slides on the left side of the airplane.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the United Kingdom is investigating the accident. As the state of manufacture of the engines, the NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of Annex 13 to the Convention on Civil Aviation to assist the AAIB with their investigation.
All inquiries concerning this accident should be directed to the AAIB of the United Kingdom:
Air Accidents Investigation Branch Farnborough House Berkshire Copse Road Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 2HH, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)1252 510300 Telex: 858119 ACCINV G Fax: +44 (0)1252 376999
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG13WA029
- Event ID
- 20130524X30219
- Case number
- ENG13WA029
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 24492f89b76f2caac0ae708ea3caf16e4e46f1caa3fe83162dca6e76790d20b0; retrieved 2026-09-15T21:38:46.457Z.