Motorproblemer - Curt Lewis

Incident: Lufthansa MD11 over Atlantic on Dec 17th 2018, engine shut down in flight

A Lufthansa McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter, registration D-ALCC performing flight GEC-8332 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to New York JFK,NY (USA), 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, later descended to FL210, climbed again to FL250 and diverted to Cologne (Germany). At some point the crew needed to shut the engine down. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on two engines on runway 14L about 3.5 hours after leaving FL320. The flight was cancelled. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Cologne about 20 hours after landing. Incident: France A321 at Toulouse on Dec 16th 2018, engine shut down in flight An Air France Airbus A321-200, registration F-GTAP performing flight AF-6123 from Toulouse to Paris Orly (France), was in the initial climb out of Toulouse's runway 14L when the left hand engine (CFM56) emitted a series of bangs prompting the crew to stop the climb at 3000 feet, shut the engine down and return to Toulouse for a safe landing on runway 14R about 12 minutes after departure. A ground observer reported he became aware of the aircraft due to a number of loud bangs, on each bang he observed the left hand engine emitted sparks. After a couple of times the bangs stopped, the aircraft subsequently went out of view.