Engine shut downs - Curt Lewis

Incident: Thai A388 near Bangkok on Feb 19th 2018, engine shut down in flight A Thai Airways Airbus A380-800, registration HS-TUA performing flight TG-676 from Bangkok (Thailand) to Tokyo Narita (Japan), was climbing through FL370 out of Bangkok when the crew received indication of one of the engines (Trent 970) overheated and lost power. The crew shut the engine down and decided to return to Bangkok where the aircraft landed safely about 135 minutes after departure. A replacement Boeing 777-300 registration HS-TKQ reached Tokyo with a delay of 17 hours. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 16 hours before returning to service. http://avherald.com/h?article=4b52b53d&opt=256 Back to Top

Incident: ANA B773 near Tokyo on Feb 19th 2018, engine shut down in flight An ANA All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-300, registration JA755A performing flight NH-469 from Tokyo Haneda to Okinawa (Japan) with 524 people on board, was climbing out of Tokyo when the crew stopped the climb at FL280 due to a low oil quantity indication for the right hand engine (PW4090) and decided to return to Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The crew needed to shut the engine down and performed a safe single engine on Haneda's runway 34R about 45 minutes after departure. A replacement Boeing 777-300 registration JA757A reached Okinawa with a delay of 3 hours. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Tokyo about 42 hours after landing back.