“It was amazing we came in very, very fast and once we'd landed we spun 90 degrees,” he told Sky News today. “I felt like I was in a washing machine. “There was this major shift to the side and all of us were slung off to the side of where we were sitting.” He said he knew something was not quite right when the jet started to land. “Hearing the bang and then the plane slide you knew you were in real trouble,” he said. “I was worrying about the fuel, you know, bursting into flames. “The wings were making cracking sounds, it was not something that you could describe.”
Air France GE90-94B (B777) Shutdown. General Electric is examining a GE90-94B turbofan to identify the fault that forced an Air France Boeing 777-200ER crew to carry out an in-flight engine shutdown and divert to Irkutsk, Siberia on a flight from Seoul, South Korea to Paris. Air France says the 246 passengers were accommodated in three Irkutsk hotels on 17 December, then flown in a chartered Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-86 to Moscow Sheremetyevo the next day.
A replacement GE90 was flown out on a chartered Volga Dnepr Antonov An-124 on 20 December with an Air France engineering crew to perform the engine change. The An-124 also collected the unserviceable GE90 and flew it via Paris to GE’s Engines Services site in the UK for examination.
“We just don’t have enough information yet to speculate on what happened,” says GE. The company says this is the first incident of its type to affect the -94B, for which the in-flight shutdown rate is 0.003 per 1,000 engine flight-hours compared with the 180min extended twin-engine operations requirement of 0.020. Maintenance industry sources indicate early investigations are focused on a possible low-pressure compressor system failure.
NTSB Identification: DCA06WA073 Scheduled 14 CFR Non-U.S., Commercial Incident occurred Monday, September 18, 2006 in Brisbane, Australia Aircraft: Boeing 777, registration: 9M-MRM Injuries: Unavailable On September 18 at approximately 0420 UTC, a Malaysian Airline Systems B-777-200, registration 9M-MRM, experienced a shutdown of the right engine while about 40 miles northwest of Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia. The engine was restarted and the airplane returned to Brisbane. The incident is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau
I remember 777 shutdowns from Continental (Pacific) Air France (Russia) and a series on JAL/ANA that nearly made them lose their ETOPS certificate.
Airlines /Boeing have been trying top push ETOPS 330. The FAA/EASA have taken a look at the numbers repeatedly & concluded sofar it was not a good idea.
Problem for Airlines is that with an unscheduled engine shutdown you have an immediate emergency situation & have to put the aircraft down at th nearest airport. Above the oceans/ poles these can be very sober airports. Then there is the issue a GE90 hardly fits any transport aircraft.
Varig PP-VRA (GE) (nowadays with AM) faced an engine shutdown while running GIG-FRA in January 2006.
Varig PP-VRJ (PW) also faced an engine shutdown closer to SSA.
Felipe
Hasn't an American Airlines 777 been stuck in India over Christmas due to engine trouble? A friend's brother has been out there for a number of weeks waiting on parts for it.
2001 January 30, Emirates A6-EMM
Not an in flight shut down, but could equally have been. Flight 069 Melbourne to Singapore aborted its take-off run on runway 16 at low speed as a result of a failure within the left (No.1) engine. Although the failure was associated with a large compressor surge within the engine, no subsequent fire developed and the aircraft was able to safely return to the terminal on the other engine. Failure of the Rolls Royce RB211 Trent 892 engine was a result of the release of a single blade from the low-pressure compressor (fan) rotor disk.
Awthompson From United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), joined May 2005, 185 posts, RR: 0 Reply 46, posted Fri Jan 5 2007 18:54:01 your local time (1 year 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 3539 times: 2001 January 30, Emirates A6-EMM 2002 May 7, Air Europe Italy 2004 January 4, Continental Airlines 2004 March 19, United Airlines, N783UA 2004 August 25, Singapore Airlines, 9V-SYB 2004 December 01, Cathay Pacific 2005 December 17 ?? Air France 2006 June 4, Korean Air 777のエンジンダウンケース!