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Aer Arann(Aer Lingus Regional) Incident

Incident: Arann AT72 near Shannon on Sep 20th 2012, engine failure
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Sep 20th 2012 17:29Z, last updated Thursday, Sep 20th 2012 17:30Z

An Aer Arann Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200, registration EI-SLL performing flight EI-3606 from Shannon (Ireland) to Manchester,EN (UK) with 44 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing through FL178 out of Shannon when the crew declared Mayday reporting the failure of the left hand engine (PW127). Tower at Shannon decided to keep the runway sterile and instructed an arriving Boeing 767-300 to go around and sent all arriving traffic into holds. The crew reported they were able to restart the engine in flight but were still continuing the return to Shannon and downgraded from Mayday to PAN. The aircraft landed safely on Shannon's runway 24 about 15 minutes after declaring emergency and taxied to the apron.

EI-SLL arriving at Shannon:
http://avherald.com/img/arann_at72_e...n_120920_1.jpg

I am sure Aer Lingus are very happy with this happening nearly every month?:mad:

Aren't Aer Arann planning to replace the 4 AT4's, the two older AT7's (EI-REH & I) and the 3 AT7's (EI-SLM stored after incident at SNN) leased from Air Contractors?. If so when are they due to arrive?

Does anyone know what circumstances the pilot would shut down and then restart an engine while returning to snn?

Eng Low Oil Pressure, Checklist requires you to shut down the engine, perform various checks to find out if it is a faulty sensor or there is an actual problem.

The shutdown probably was due to the faulty sensor and allowed the crew to start it up again.

But again, Im not sure if this is what happened in this case.