Baggage handler causes £4million damage to British Air jet

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A British Airways plane had to abort take-off after a baggage handler left a tool on the engine cover and it was sucked into the plane.

The error is said to have caused £4 million in damage to the Airbus A320, which was due to fly from Heathrow to Bucharest in Romania when a loud bang was heard.

The 150 passengers on board were taken off the plane and reportedly left to wait three hours for another flight.

The incident is understood to have happened after the baggage handler left his luggage-scanner gun on the cowling and forgot to remove it.

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[flightlover]

And no one saw this? Nice work.

[regi]

Would he have left the device at the inside of the engine, instead of on top? That could explain why nobody noticed it.

[earthman]

Well, the bottom of the inside of the cowling is a convenient location to put objects. Can a normal person even reach the top of the engine cowling on an A320?

[cnc]

no check before pushback from ground crew? nice work