Air France A380 lost engine
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Air France A380 lost engine
Last night an Air France Airbus A380 from Abidjan to Paris lost an engine and had to turn around, and landed safely in Abidjan. See flightaware
Im just wondering why this isnt mentioned in news hardly anywhere. Is it less of a big deal when an A380 loses an engine than what Id think?
It is top news on Ivory Coast's main news site (abidjan net) but I cant see it anywhere else.
Im just wondering why this isnt mentioned in news hardly anywhere. Is it less of a big deal when an A380 loses an engine than what Id think?
It is top news on Ivory Coast's main news site (abidjan net) but I cant see it anywhere else.
Do you mean “lost” as in it fell off and is missing, or do you mean it was shut down, and the aircraft flew safely on the three remaining engines.
The first is clearly cause for concern, the second rates about as much news coverage as it seems to be getting
The first is clearly cause for concern, the second rates about as much news coverage as it seems to be getting
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"Un porte-parole d'Air France ŕ Paris joint par l'AFP a précisé que "Techniquement , c'est ce qu'on appelle un pompage réacteur. C'est une avarie moteur qui est connue" '...) "Ca peut ętre lié ŕ l'ingestion d'un oiseau par un réacteur au décollage"."
Which loosely translates as "it was an engine surge" and "could have been to do with ingestion of a bird".
Would appear to be a non-event and not news worthy.
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Beware the confusion over a "lost" engine. The ambiguity didn't help American 191 in Chicago when the engine physically separated from the airframe on departure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...nes_Flight_191
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...nes_Flight_191
Air France have a maintenance line station there and there's plenty of reasonable hotels nearby for the pax.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable decision to me.
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Line station is fine but it has a limited value if you have to change the engine on A380. I do not remember what maindeck capacity serves Abidjan today but I suspect the engine will have to end up on expensive charter flight along with AOG team, and passengers in hotels while pushing to BCN/TLS, let alone CDG will feature much less disruption and cost associated. So if that was a clearly isolated problem with one engine, I keep my opinion whether this was a reasonable decision after all.
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Yes. The one that had the major engine failure (ie lost the fan in flight over Greenland) and diverted to Goose Bay had a non-operating engine attached and did a 3-engine ferry flight pack to Paris.
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Can you do a three engine ferry flight with an A380?
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based on the pictures, lost is much more accurate description.