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British Airways Flight 2276

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British Airways accidents and incidentsEngvarB from March 2016Harry Reid International AirportSeptember 2015 events in the United States
G VIIO British Airways Boeing 777 236 ER (cn 29320 182) (8227914697)
G VIIO British Airways Boeing 777 236 ER (cn 29320 182) (8227914697)

British Airways Flight 2276 was a scheduled international passenger service from Las Vegas to London. On 8 September 2015, the Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight suffered an uncontained engine failure and fire in the left (#1) GE90 engine during take-off from Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, prompting an aborted take-off and the evacuation of all passengers and crew. All 170 people on board survived, but 20 were injured. The aircraft, which suffered moderate damage to a section of its forward fuselage as of a result of the vigorous fire, was repaired and returned to commercial passenger service in March 2016. The fire was caused by metal fatigue in a compressor disk, leading to detachment of the main fuel supply line.

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G VIIO British Airways Boeing 777 236 ER (cn 29320 182) (8227914697)
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Harry Reid International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is an international airport in Paradise, Nevada, and is the main government airport for public use in the Las Vegas Valley, a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Downtown Las Vegas. The airport is owned by the Clark County Commission and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. LAS covers 2,800 acres (11.3 km2) of land.The airport was built in 1942 and opened to airline flights in 1948. It has expanded since then and has employed various innovative technologies, such as common-use facilities. The airport has four runways and two passenger terminals. East of the passenger terminals is the Marnell Air Cargo Center, and on the west side of the airport are fixed-base operators and helicopter companies. The airport services as a base for Allegiant Air, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Spirit Airlines. The airport was also a hub for Bonanza Air Lines, Hughes Airwest, America West Airlines, and continued as a hub when America West merged into US Airways, until 2008. It is the busiest airport in the United States that does not operate as a hub for any of the five U.S legacy carriers. The airport is named after U.S. Senator Harry Reid, who represented Nevada in the Senate from 1987 to 2017. From 1968 prior to the renaming on December 14, 2021, the airport was called McCarran International Airport, and prior to 1968 it was named McCarran Field, after U.S Senator Pat McCarran who represented Nevada from 1933 until 1954.