Template:Did you know nominations/British Airways Flight 2276


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 01:12, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

British Airways Flight 2276

 * ... that a British Airways Boeing 777 (pictured) caught fire while taking off from Las Vegas due to a "catastrophic engine failure" in the left-hand engine?


 * ALT1:... that British Airways Flight 2276 (aircraft pictured) aborted its take-off and evacuated all passengers and crew after a GE90 engine caught fire?
 * Reviewed: Annely Juda

Created by Alakzi (talk) and GraemeLeggett (talk). Nominated by Sovereign Sentinel (talk) at 12:26, 10 September 2015 (UTC).


 * This is basically a news item, but it's not sufficiently newsworthy to feature in "In the news"; and there's so little we know about what happened at this point in time, that I can't possibly suggest a hook-y hook. I'd wait for the NTSB report to be released (in about a year's time, presumably), take the article through GA, and then return to DYK. Alakzi (talk) 14:02, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Which is why I nominated this for DYK instead of ITN (where it would fail). As for "and there's so little we know about what happened at this point in time, that I can't possibly suggest a hook-y hook", I frankly do not understand what you mean. This article meets DYK policies, and my hook is interesting enough for DYK. Why not? sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 15:31, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't violate any rules, but I don't think it's very interesting to be reiterating recent news headlines. Others might disagree. Alakzi (talk) 15:36, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * DYK is often backlogged, and prep builders are encouraged to promote older hooks first, so it should be a long time before this gets promoted. People would have forgotten about it by then. sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 15:54, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg This article is long enough and new enough. The hooks have inline citations and either could be used. The image is properly licensed, the article is neutral and appears to be free of copyright problems. The article was written by multiple editors and I am not sure whether others should also be credited. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hi, I came by to promote this. I removed a bit of close paraphrasing from the article. The first hook is very hooky, but the inline cite for it doesn't support the two quotes in the sentence, "catastrophic engine failure" and "loud boom". Yoninah (talk) 09:52, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Just promote ALT1. Sorry for forgetting about this. sst✈ 01:03, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg OK. Restoring tick for ALT1 per Cwmhiraeth's review. Yoninah (talk) 01:10, 18 October 2015 (UTC)