Motorbortfall 570NM fra land - B767-300 - Curt Lewis

 

Incident: United B763 over Atlantic on Mar 28th 2022, engine failure

 

A United Boeing 767-300, registration N675UA performing flight UA-134 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Zurich (Switzerland) with 123 people on board, was enroute at FL370 over the Atlantic Ocean about 570nm west of Shannon (Ireland) when the crew reported the failure/damage of the right hand engine (PW4060), drifted down to FL250 and later FL200 and decided to divert to Shannon. The crew advised they would taxi off the runway and to the apron, no inspection on the runway or taxiway was necessary. The aircraft landed safely on runway 06 about 95 minutes after leaving FL370.