British Airways B744 over Atlantic on Oct 14th 2013, electrical fire on board

A British Airways Boeing 747-400, registration G-BNLW performing flight BA-192 (Dep Oct 13th) from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA) to London Heathrow,EN (UK) with 275 passengers, was enroute over the Atlantic Ocean, breakfast was about to be served, when an burning electrical smell was noticed and fire detectors went off. An actual fire was detected in the cabinet containing the control center of the inflight entertaiment center, cabin crew managed to extinguish the fire. The aircraft continued to London for a safe landing.

The airline confirmed the incident reporting it took about 5 minutes from detecting the first fumes to the ultimately small fire being extinguished using several, possibly 5, fire extinguishers.

The occurrence has been rated as serious incident, an investigation has been opened into the occurrence.

Passengers reported that they noticed the inflight entertainment system went offline and there was some accumulation of flight attendants. It was only later that some of the passengers were quietly told about a fire, that had taken out part of the inflight entertainment system.