A fire has broken out on stairs next to a British Airways plane at Heathrow Airport tonight.
Pictures and video shared on social media show the ground vehicle ablaze beside the A320 plane at Terminal 5 of the UK's busiest airport. Flames and a huge black cloud of smoke can be seen from the set of mobile stairs right beside the plane.
The thick column of smoke so high it could be seen from behind several other terminal buildings at the busy airport, which is in the Hounslow district of west London. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported as yet, a British Airways spokesperson said.
But firefighters are seen in videos posted online, battling to put out the blaze with water jets just yards from the terminal building. People sharing the pictures and footage expressed their shock on social media sites, including X, which was known as Twitter.
Heathrow Airport confirmed no passengers were onboard the aircraft at the time. A spokesperson said the airport fire service had attended to the incident promptly. The aircraft affected, registered as G-EUYO, last flew in to Heathrow from Athens, Greece, at 5.14pm this afternoon, but no one was onboard the plane when the fire happened beside it.
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A British Airways spokesperson said: "Emergency services quickly extinguished a small fire of a third party ground vehicle. No customers were impacted and there were no injuries." Metropolitan Police said officers attended to provide assistance.
In April, images showed two passenger planes colliding by the runway at Heathrow Airport, leading to emergency services racing to the scene. Footage posted on social media shows a Virgin Atlantic plane’s wing touching a British Airways aircraft. The Virgin Boeing 787-9 plane had completed a flight and was being towed to a different part of the airfield with no passengers on board at the time of the incident, it is understood.
Virgin said it has launched an investigation into the collision. The aircraft has been taken out of service and engineering teams are performing maintenance checks on it, the airline added.
The British Airways aircraft was stationary at the time of the incident and is being assessed by engineering teams, the company said. BA said it has provided an alternative aircraft to “limit the impact on our customers”.
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