A fatigue crack was the cause of engine failure and a fire on a British Airways flight that ended prematurely, with passengers and crew fleeing a cockpit that was filling with smoke.
The September 8, 2015 flight from Las Vegas to London came to an abrupt end after its pilot heard a loud “bang” during takeoff and aborted the flight. The jetliner came to a stop on the runway 13 seconds later, but that didn’t bring an end to the emergency, according to a report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which investigated the incident.