Picture courtesy of Matichon.

 

An EVA Air flight en route from Bangkok to London was forced to make an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport on April 5, after circling over Thailand’s airspace for several hours. Flight BR67, which had departed at 13:01 from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, experienced an issue that led to a dramatic change in its flight path.

 

According to reports, the plane, which had been flying towards London, was unable to continue on its course due to a problem with its front landing gear. As a precaution, the pilots made the decision to burn fuel in order to reduce the aircraft’s weight to a safe level before initiating an emergency landing.

 

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-36N (ER) registration B-16738, was carrying a full complement of passengers, began to circle in Thai airspace while the pilots carried out the necessary procedures to ensure the safety of all on board. After several hours of circling, the decision was made to return to Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Thankfully, the flight landed safely back at the airport with no reported injuries. Emergency crews were on standby as the plane touched down, and the passengers were taken off the aircraft.

 

A spokesperson for EVA Air later confirmed that the incident was caused by a problem with the front wheel’s tyre, which prompted the emergency landing. The airline expressed gratitude for the professionalism of its flight crew and reassured passengers that their safety remained its top priority.

 

Following the safe landing, the airline will continue to investigate the cause of the issue with the landing gear and has promised to take appropriate steps to ensure the safety of future flights.

 

-- 2025-04-05

 

Well done some good news for a change🤔

Compensation for the passengers emotional distress and missed connections etc ?

Talking about emergency landigs, A flight to Perth got diverted to Melbourne, 3500 km away, because of strong winds 

I flew EVA back to Bangkok from London  and when we landed  some of the passengers gave a round of applause.. as they say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing,I hope you are correct and the passengers are compensated 👍

3 hours ago, BigBilly said:

EVA is a good airline, unlike Thai.  They will certainly provide hotels and rebook everyone.

Thai airways wouldn't rebook everyone?

Eva is ok but not an amazing airline by any stretch. 

If this was Thai no doubt you would be harping on about Thai and lack of maintenance.

5 hours ago, BigBilly said:

EVA is a good airline, unlike Thai.  They will certainly provide hotels and rebook everyone.

Nothing wrong with Thai, depending on where you want to fly to.

5 minutes ago, BigBilly said:

Thai is one of the airlines that during covid times cancelled flights, left people stranded, and then refused to issue refunds for the cancelled flights.

 

I'm sure Thai would eventually rebook people, but who knows how many days later, and probably with no compensation.

Covid ended five years ago maybe? Lots of airlines hit trouble, not only Thai.

If Thai had an emergency landing today would they not rebook passengers just as Eva did?

1 minute ago, BigBilly said:

Eventually.  Maybe in a month or two when they had spare seats.

Right, of course.

Just a typical Thai bashing bitter old AN poster. Ridiculous.

5 hours ago, johng said:

Compensation for the passengers emotional distress and missed connections etc ?

 

What emotional distress? Pilots don't tell passengers the full details to keep idiots from panicking and inflicting their  stupid screamin and wails on other pax.. The pilot will say there is an issue that they are working to resolve and if they have to turn back and burn off fuel will say that and nothing else, until there is a need to prepare for a difficult landing. 

 

The flight originates in TPE, does a 5th freedom stop in BKK and then departs for LHR. The LHR bound passengers will be protected by the UK 261 regulations which mirror the EU protections.

 If the connections are on the same flight booking, the misconnect gets automatically rebooked. If it is a separate ticket, the pax deals with it. The airline isn't liable for nonlinked  flights.

 

The frequent flyers won't get much extra  from EVA. EVA Miles isn't particularly generous to anyone.

EVA has gone downhill just like Cathay.

 

 

What happened to dumping the fuel in an emergency situation - don't they do that any more?

9 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Well done some good news for a change🤔

 

Hah! If it had been a THAI aircraft, you would have been leading the charge with @BigBilly on high cost, poor service, rampant corruption, old airplanes and painting the tail fin black.

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

What happened to dumping the fuel in an emergency situation - don't they do that any more?

 

 Fuel dumping is done over the sea, not over land. The flight was originally headed NW, away from the sea, so having it urn and circle over the Gulf would have taken more time and probably more disruptive to other air traffic.

2 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

EVA has gone downhill just like Cathay.

 

 

 

I haven't flown Cathay in ages until last month, long-haul HKG-MAN. Wasn't too bad, but they didn't board in groups at either BKK or HKG, like most other airlines. Got wise to that at HKG and played the doddering senior and 'barged' my way in near the front. Food service at the back of the bus was a bit haphazard looking on both flights, with an attendant running back and forth, balancing extra trays as their food carts were emptied.

 

Also, their 777 on the BKK-HKG hop was 21 years old, which makes EVA's 777 involved in the above incident a mere whippersnapper at 7 years old.

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

 

Hah! If it had been a THAI aircraft, you would have been leading the charge with @BigBilly on high cost, poor service, rampant corruption, old airplanes and painting the tail fin black.

I doubt that as I'm on one in 3 weeks 🤔

 

12 hours ago, johng said:

Compensation for the passengers emotional distress and missed connections etc ?

 

Hopefully. My daughter and her family were on board. A night at the Marriot Bangkok, and now on their way once again..........same aircraft

8 hours ago, BigBilly said:

 

My EVA business class flight from BKK to san francisco is in a few days.  It cost me just 75K miles.  Thats the cheapest redemption I know of for any airline on that route.  Costs me about 750 USD equivalent in miles earned from credit card points.  I would call that quite generous.

There are always exceptions. You are fortunate and scored a rare "deal" that really isn't a deal. to most people.  It doesn't help if you want to have a Return flight because a 1 way in business is almost always more expensive than the allocated  segment on a round trip, so you end up paying  more. Trying to redeem a RT for LAX, YVR,, NYC, YYZ is  very dificult. 

 

EVA has Miles that expire in 2 years,  lack of availability and an inflation of reward redemption fares distinguish the  EVA Miles program.  That is the consensus on the frequent flyer  website. I use it for my fare deal and mileage run guidance.

18 hours ago, still kicking said:

Nothing wrong with Thai, depending on where you want to fly to.

 

Mediocre business class. 

 

There are much better options for longer haul flights. 

1 minute ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Mediocre business class. 

 

There are much better options for longer haul flights. 

You don't understand. Thai is the only one that flies non-stop from Perth to BKK

19 minutes ago, still kicking said:

You don't understand. Thai is the only one that flies non-stop from Perth to BKK

 

Fortunately I do not have to fly to Perth, Australia often. 

 

18 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

EVA has gone downhill just like Cathay.

 

Cathay has just launched new premium economy and business class products, meant to be quite good. 

 

Certainly will be enough to elevate them above Thai and Malaysian Airlines.

1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

Fortunately I do not have to fly to Perth, Australia often. 

 

 

Cathay has just launched new premium economy and business class products, meant to be quite good. 

 

Certainly will be enough to elevate them above Thai and Malaysian Airlines.

Thai also recently announced an all new business class is coming across the fleet - including lie flat in narrow bodies. Also bringing in Premium economy and new IFE.

Thai, for me, is a decent regional carrier (better than most) but a terrible long haul one. Hopefully this will finally allow them to properly compete.

 

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/thai-airways-new-777-787-business-class

It's also getting rid of first class except, for some reason, in just three B777's. I wonder why....(thinking occasional flights to and from a certain mountainous European location).

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

Thai, for me, is a decent regional carrier (better than most) but a terrible long haul one. Hopefully this will finally allow them to properly compete.

 

I flew EVA business from Bangkok to Toronto a month ago. It was my second time with them and it was even better than the first time. The only thing that's a bit sucky is their lounge in Taipei which can't compete with Thai airways. She sleep was comfortable, in flight menu great and I got to keep one of the most comfortable pyjamas I ever owned.

 

I hope they don't "upgrade" anything as it's usually a downgrade. Recently saw Thai Airways business class upgrade which has passengers feet sticking out into aisle.

20 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

EVA has gone downhill just like Cathay.

 

 

Still prefer Cathay to EVA though. I just wish HKG would use the boarding 'by seating group' approach used in many other airports. If you're not in business or premium economy class then you end up in this huge single line for economy which stretches way down the concourse. Taiwan's airport used to really suck, nothing open airside when transfering, but I think they built a new terminal? Haven't flown through there for at least 7-8 years.

On 4/5/2025 at 6:23 PM, johng said:

Compensation for the passengers emotional distress and missed connections etc ?

 

Emotional distress? Good grief... it's a flight delay, not a fire fight in Helmand.

 

PTSD anyone?

On 4/5/2025 at 6:20 PM, Patong2021 said:

The LHR bound passengers will be protected by the UK 261 regulations which mirror the EU protections.

 

Non EU (UK) carrier with the flight origin a non EU (UK) territory means EU(UK)261 does not apply.

On 4/6/2025 at 12:09 AM, josephbloggs said:

Right, of course.

Just a typical Thai bashing bitter old AN poster. Ridiculous.

Well said.