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Flight Report # 18Airline: Philippine Airlines (PAL)Aircraft: Boeing 777-300(ER)Registration: RP-C7775Flight Number: PR114Flight DateL June 17, 2019Flight Du. A Philippine Airlines Boeing 777-300 (registration number RP-C7775) had a right engine fire after takeoff from LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) shortly after 11:15 am today. The Manila-bound Flight 113 landed safely back at LAX about 45 minutes after takeoff. 777 engine fire was visible on the ground.
Business Class
The Business class seats of B777-300ER are adjustable to a variety of the positions at the passenger’s option. The seat may recline with a 15 degree angle (Chaiselongue position). It is outfitted with a 15.4 in. seat-back mounted and 10.6in in-arm touch-screen personal television which allows the passengers to program controls with memory. Each seat is equipped with individual “goose neck” reading lights, laptop charging port and USB port for passengers to listen to their personal mp3 collection or view photos and PDF files.
Business Class seats are outfitted in plush, deep-blue upholstery accented with touches of silvery-copper threads that simulate reflections of light on water.
Economy Class
The Economy Class Passengers benefit from the new seats from Weber which features an actuating seat pan that enables the seat bottom cushion to be moved up or forward to support the body when relaxing. It is also outfitted with a 9in seatback mounted and in-arm touch-screen personal television.
The Economy Class seats feature the undulating wave-pattern design in a blue, aqua and terracotta palette.
The relaxed, tropical feel extends to the front and back ends of the cabin where interiors, curtains, carpets and surfaces are in various shades of blue, white, gray, silver and tan.
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Inflight Entertainment System
The entire cabin of the new B777-300ERs is equipped with Panasonic eX2 Inflight Entertainment System. This is a fully digital inflight entertainment system that enables Economy Class passengers to choose from a full-library of video and audio content. Each passenger seat is outfited with personal TV and Audio/Video On-Demand AVOD feature.
Each seat is outfitted with personal TV, 9-inch seatback-mounted monitors and in-arm monitors, with AVOD (Audio Video on Demand) feature that will enable passengers to start, pause, rewind, and fast-forward any of the video programs at any time using the touch-screen controls or the passenger control units.
The AVOD system gives passengers a wide range of digital on-demand entertainment options – they can individually select from a variety of digital games and entertainment programs anytime.
The selections includes 18 of the latest Hollywood movies, a Filipino film, 8 popular TV programs, 12 radio channels and a selection of CD albums.
Each passenger can also create his own audio playlist from the collection of CD albums. On-screen instructions are available in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
A Philippine Airlines Boeing 777-300 (registration number RP-C7775) had a right engine fire after takeoff from LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) shortly after 11:15 am today.
The Manila-bound Flight 113 landed safely back at LAX about 45 minutes after takeoff.
777 engine fire was visible on the ground
Smoke from the engine was clearly visible to people observing the event from the ground. Inside the cabin, passengers were filming the incident. Banging sounds could be heard from inside the cabin, something to be expected since the misfiring engine was still running while on fire.
Emergency landing back to LAX
The heavily loaded 777 bound for Manila performed an emergency landing back to LAX. The tires to deflated on landing. However, the Fire Department was quickly in place to cool down the tires with water.
The plane was safely on the runway 25L at LAX within about 45 minutes after the inflight engine fire started. After landing the plane taxied off the runway on its own, where it was met by emergency services.
Passengers reported there was very little information from the pilots during the event. The announcement from the cockpit was that they were headed back to Los Angeles, but didn’t explain why to the passengers. According to passengers, the flight attendants appeared frantic getting the cabin ready for landing on such short notice.
Twitter posts about the Philippine Airlines 777 engine fire at LAX
The Captain of Philippine Airlines Flight 113
How pilots compartmentalize procedures during emergencies
Pilots often have their hands full in situations such as this. There is often little or even no time for a full passenger explanation of what is going on with the airplane. Pilot passenger announcements are given when there is time to do so.
Why so little emergency information from the pilots sometimes?
Some passengers on the Philippine flight complained the pilots gave them very little information.
Here’s why you don’t necessarily get too much information from the cockpit during emergency events, such as this one. Pilot procedures are very straight forward in regards to how emergency priorities are handled. Items are taken care of in a certain succession. This ensures safety during the emergency at all times.
Multi-tasking an airplane emergency involves safely multi-tasking the many things simultaneously happening in the cockpit. Safety remains the #1 priority.
First, the pilot must avigate. Avigate means to fly the airplane, maintain full control, while taking care of the emergency situation.
The next priority is to navigate. Navigate means to know where you are at all times and where you are going, from point A to B.
Communicate is the last thing in priority order. Talking to Air Traffic Control, coordinate with the company, and talk with the flight attendants are all important communication items that have to be accomplished.
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Last, the pilot will pick up that microphone and give his or her passenger announcementabout what’s going on with the emergency.
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As an outside observer of this event, but with good knowledge of airline flight crew emergency procedures, it appears that the Philippine Airlines pilots and flight attendants were performing their job well.
Social media reactions to the incident
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We received a lot of reactions from many different social media outlets about our report on the incident. Here is one comment from Ostonu Faga, who provided very intelligent inputs:
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