Air Canada B77W near Anchorage on Jan 30th 2009, engine shut down in flight
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Air Canada B77W near Anchorage on Jan 30th 2009, engine shut down in flight
By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Feb 1st 2009 14:32Z, last updated Sunday, Feb 1st 2009 14:32Z
An Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER, registration C-FRAM performing flight AC-1 from Vancouver,BC (Canada) to Tokyo Narita (Japan), was already overhead the Pacific at FL330 around 4.5 hours into the flight, when one of the engines (GE90) had to be shut down. The airplane drifted down to FL220 and turned around for a diversion to Anchorage,AK (USA), where the airplane landed safely about 2:20 hours later.
A replacement Boeing 777-300ER resumed the flight as flight AC-2101 Saturday afternoon (Jan 31st 2009) and reached Tokyo with a total delay of 46 hours.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA1/history/20090130/2039Z/CYVR/RJAA
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA2101/history/20090201/0006Z/PANC/RJAA
This happening too often, whats going on here?
A replacement Boeing 777-300ER resumed the flight as flight AC-2101 Saturday afternoon (Jan 31st 2009) and reached Tokyo with a total delay of 46 hours.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA1/history/20090130/2039Z/CYVR/RJAA
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA2101/history/20090201/0006Z/PANC/RJAA
This happening too often, whats going on here?
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No let's not just yet please. The GE-90 on the 777-300ER has become a little prone to this kind of thing has it not?
