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Southwest Boeing 737 MAX 8 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8, performing positioning flight from Orlando,FL to Victorville, CA (USA) with 2 crew on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was in the initial climb out of Orlando’s runway 36R when the crew reported they had just lost their right hand engine (LEAP), stopped the climb at 2000 […]

LATAM Chile Airbus A321 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A LATAM Chile Airbus A321-200, performing flight LA-273 from Puerto Montt to Balmaceda (Chila) with 156 passengers and 8 crew, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft had aborted the approach to Balmaceda twice, held at Balmaceda for about one hour in between the approaches and was now returning to Puerto Montt at FL220 when the […]

Vistara Airbus A320 Engine Shut Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Vistara Airbus A320-200, performing flight from Chennai to Kolkata (India) with about 130 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was descending towards Kolkata when the right hand engine (V2527) failed prompting the crew to secure the engine. The aircraft continued for a safe landing. The aircraft is still on the ground […]

Indigo Airbus A320 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Indigo Airbus A320-200, performing flight from Bangalore (India) to Bangkok (Thailand) with 129 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL370 about 170nm southwest of Yangoon (Myanmar) when the crew received an engine (V2527) low oil pressure indication, performed the related checklist shutting the engine down and diverted to Yangoon […]

Flybe Dash 8-400 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Manchester (UK) to Luxembourg (Luxembourg) with 40 passengers, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was climbing through FL180 out of Manchester when the left hand engine (PW150) emitted a loud bang prompting the crew to shut the engine down. Smoke entered the cabin. The crew decided to […]

Iberia Airbus A340 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Iberia Airbus A340-600, performing flight from Lima (Peru) to Madrid (Spain) with 360 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL330 about 660nm southeast of Bogota (Colombia) in Brazilian Airspace when the crew needed to shut one of the four engines (Trent 556) down due to the loss of oil […]

Spicejet Boeing 737-8 MAX Engine Shut Down in Flight
Spicejet Boeing 737 MAX 8 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Spicejet Boeing 737-8 MAX, performing flight from Hong Kong (China) to Delhi (India) with 140 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL340 about 180nm east of Varanasi (India) when the left hand engine (LEAP 1B) shut down due to a restriction in the fuel flow. The crew drifted the […]

Lufthansa MD-11 Freighter Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Lufthansa McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter, performing flight from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to New York JFK (USA), engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL320 about 230nm southwest of Faroe Islands when the crew reported a problem with one of the engines (CF6). The aircraft turned around to return to Germany, initially descended to FL290, […]

Norwegian Boeing 737 MAX 8 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737-8MAX, performing flight from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Oslo (Norway) with 180 passengers and 6 crew, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL320 exactly overhead Shiraz (Iran) when the crew decided to shut the the left hand engine (LEAP) down and divert to Shiraz, where the aircraft […]

American Airlines Boeing 777 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, performing flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Miami (USA) with 206 passengers and 13 crew, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL350 over the Atlantic Ocean about 650nm westnorthwest of Shannon (Ireland) when the crew declared emergency reporting they had shut down the right hand […]