British Airways Flight Evacuated in Bermuda Amid BOMB THREAT! [REAL ATC Audio]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2024
- On May 5, 2024, a British Airways flight (BAW18B) from Bermuda to London was forced to abort takeoff due to a bomb threat. Emergency equipment arrived after stopping on the runway but could not approach the plane close enough due to safety protocols.
Passengers remained on board for 40 minutes, prompting the captain to threaten evacuation via slides. Eventually, air stairs arrived and passengers disembarked, having to walk back to the terminal without busses. The situation worsened as the airport itself received a bomb threat, leading to its evacuation.
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This is disturbing. If that threat had been real...
Seriously right. I was thinking the whole time how bad and dangerous this was. The pilot should have deployed the slides as soon as he heard the terminal was being evacuated. That meant resources were getting thinner and thinner and he had responsibility to get his passengers to safety.
@@infopubsYes but no. For pilots, the aircraft and everyone is in their hands. They usually don't evacuate without certain, and again a certain life threat, since the evacuation via slides are likely to enduce injuries (and people will likely take their luggage). The slides are also single use. So it's better and arguably safer for them to stay in the plane. But I would say the airport needs a better emergency coordination and systems as they should be out there in less than 10 minutes.
But to add for the previous point. Its why it's better for the air stairs. And its also for convenience. If the threat isnt real and they deploy the slides, the plane can't be flown legally if I recall with a used slide. So they'd likely have to make accommodations. Some smaller planes had air stairs built in but not so much bigger planes. If there is no threat then they can continue. If people exit the runway, there will be no one to account and control people, if this was real. Or worse someone could get injested into the engine and stuck on the runway.
@@infopubsthat’s not smart at all…blowing the slides and letting people just scatter doesn’t control the situation at all.
@@infopubs two wheelchair passengers were onboard. Slides would not help..
This is a fucking mess.
If this was practice for the people sending the bomb threat in, they got a lot of good information. Bermuda is absolutely not prepared for such a thing. Passengers might take note and not travel there. Bermuda needs to step it up on how they handle this kind of threat.
Not that I know how, but surely it has to be better than this... 40+ minutes before stairs even arrive?
I know the terminal itself had a threat as well, but still. Woeful ops at Bermuda.
That probably goes for a few more of the Caribbean islands as well. Totally unprepared.
Rather British Parliament needs to. Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory.
People should quit flying to Bermuda and/or BA should stop their flights to Bermuda. Why do the airport personnel call themselves a fire brigade or emergency services which they are NOT! Kudos to the captain for staying on top of the situation.
I was thinking the same. If anything good comes from it, it reveals just how bad the situation is. Do they even have an airport management team? If they do, then heads need to roll.
Ĺ@@bluemoon5662
Uhhhh, because Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory. It is quite literally still a part of the British Empire.
Who are you?????
The goal of emergency persons should be to save the passengers at the risk of their own lives. That's the job. We have seen this behavior before in school shootings. All of the emergency persons need to be replaced with those that have balls.
Not the most relatable analogy. Most of the world (most of us) haven't seen a school shooting before because we don't live in the US
The pilot is showing ground staff how to do their jobs.
Agree, airport was not prepared for this. Poor management. Response terrible. Get the people off the airplane. Too bad plane can’t just do an emergency shoots. Got to get all off right away. Slide should have been activated.
The pilot is probably thinking, you telling me about Terminal evacuation when I have 40 tons of fuel and a possible bomb
Standard urgency in the islands. No matter where in the world, if it’s tropical and an island there is no sense of urgency…. ever.
Bermuda is not tropical mate.....
@@edwardrichardson5567 maybe not by latitude but let’s not hold their location against them. Its climate is tropical. According to the Köppen climate classification Bermuda lies in the transition zone between tropical rainforest climate and humid subtropical climate. Bermuda meets the temperature threshold of a tropical climate.
This is a case of having emergency procedures that have not been practiced often enough. Seems no one knew what to do or who to turn to. It should not be the captain asking for marshals, fire service, ambulance, and escort buses. These should all be triggered by the full emergency that it was.
Close that airport
They can't even pick a door to evacuate.
People be complaining, but they seem to forget that Bermuda is only 100 square kilometers big. It’s 1,000 km away from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, 1,350 km away from the Turks and Caicos, 1,550 km away from the British Virgin Islands, 1,350 km away from Nova Scotia, 3,400 km away from the Azores, 4,865 km away from the Western Sahara, and 5,200 km away from Great Britain itself!
Aviation is the main form of transportation on and off the island, so you can’t just shut down the airport.
They are dealing with a credible bomb threat on a plane with 197 people on board loaded with 50 tons of fuel!
It took them more than 40 minutes to get the emergency fire services to the aircraft and an hour to get steps to the aircraft. This is utter and absolute incompetence by the Tower and airport authorities. The controller has no awareness or even common sense about the potential deadliness of the situation. She and her supervisor should be immediately reassigned to non-critical duties pending an investigation and full review of emergency services and procedures at the airport. The crew of the aircraft should have been vociferous with the Tower and notwithstanding possible injuries from a slide evacuation, evacuated via the slides within 10 minutes rather than continue putting lives at risk.
64sq km. Definitely not 100sq km.
lol @ Bermuda, very lame.
sorry for the long comment but here are the facts:
Lets assume the alleged bomb was wired one of three ways
A) a pressure trigger
B) a timer
C) a person with remote or similar
In scenario C a human is involved so no matter what you do there is going to be a problem (if you give an evacuation command, they will just set it off, but they will likely do that even if you deplane in a non-evacuation manner)
now in scenario A or B no matter how you look at it getting as many people as possible away from the device is obviously the best option.
Yes, the ground crew were not very helpful but ultimately the safety of every person on the plane is the responsibility of the captain. At the end of the day, the Flight crew have the right to disregard ATC if the safety of the aircraft is at risk and because of this the captain should have ordered an immediate evacuation as soon as the plane stopped moving after the canceled takeoff (and obviously alerted the tower that this was happening so they can order a full ground stop)
In order to pass certification EVERY commercial aircraft has to prove that every person can be evacuated in 90 seconds or less. There is no scenario that keeping the passengers on the plane makes sense. Even if there was a human controlling the device if an evacuation command is given at least the passengers stand a chance.
If this threat was real in scenarios B and C there is an absolute certainty most passengers and crew would be killed.
I cannot believe staying on the aircraft for one second longer than necessary was even considered yet alone the option chosen.
in my mind the captain of this flight was acting completely insane, and I am sure that after the investigation is completed, he will at MINIMUM have to take safety training, but ultimately, He needs to be fired immediately. I understand that this situation is incredibly stressful but his kneejerk reaction in any emergency should be to do what is safest and he simply did not do this and it is for that reason he has no place at the controls of a commercial aircraft.
I agree.
Not a single plane that has had a bomb threat have blown slides to evacuate…that might be the dumbest idea ever.
Are you a commercial aircraft pilot?
Based upon the communications that we heard, I believe it's very clear that he was taking instructions from senior management in London as to how to manage the situation, so his position is not in jeopardy, nor will he need or be sent for any sort of remedial training.
Also, neither the Captain nor BA wanted to send passengers down the slides. There would certainly be injuries (and potentially deaths) as a result. You have to consider that a BDA-LHR flight would almost certainly have quite a few elderly passengers.
@@Bungle-UKare you?