Air traffic controllers monitoring a British Airways jumbo jet were stunned at the pilot's decision to try to 'get as far as we can' after an engine caught fire on takeoff, a transcript of discussions between the plane and the control tower revealed.
The controllers in Los Angeles expected the four-engine Boeing 747 to turn around but, after taking advice from BA's operations base, the pilot carried on towards London. He told air traffic control: 'We just decided we want to set off on our flight-plan route and get as far as we can.'
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