Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
The sensible approach must be somewhere between (albeit closer to the former option imo) ..
Agreed... I came across this flight while looking at recent EIO diversions. Looks like the same flight different date?
Geneva to Brussels (287nm) is a bit further than Shiraz to KWI (243nm) would have been.
Incident: Brussels A332 near Geneva on Nov 5th 2018, engine shut down in flight
A Brussels Airlines Airbus A330-200, registration OO-SFZ performing flight SN-359 (dep Nov 4th) from Kinshasa N'djili (DR Congo) to Brussels (Belgium), was enroute at FL400 about 20nm east of Geneva (Switzerland) within French Airspace when the left hand engine (PW4168) emitted a loud bang, the crew received an "ENG1 STALL" warning. The crew shut the engine down, drifted down to FL280 and continued to Brussels for a safe landing about 55 minutes later.
Incident: Brussels A332 near Geneva on Nov 5th 2018, engine shut down in flight