Gulf Air 330 into Cyprus

[dareya]

Does anyone have any details on the Gulf Air 330 landing in Cyprus as reported in the Gulf Daily News. I find it hard to believe that GF would divert into Cyprus because of a simple engine failure. I thought they had a policy of continue onto destination no matter what the mechanical difficulties ? For eg. 330 ISB to AUH or 340 BKK to BAH .
Or on this occasion did they actually complete the ECAM actions checklist and chose the nearest suitable airport that wasn't 900 plus NM away.

[4HolerPoler]

I haven't heard of the incident but, quite clearly, an engine failure in a twin requires the crew to land at the nearest available airport - there really is no discussion about it. Sure, companies would like, and some crews would comply, for an aircraft with such a failure to land at a more commercially suitable or technically capable field but that would be in contravention of both legal & company expectations.

4HP

[Flyer1015]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/September/middleeast_September711.xml&section=middleeast&col=

[IShotTheSherif]

I was there. The aircraft was A330-243 reg: A4O-KA, c/n: 276.

A replacement engine was flown in by IL76, and -KA returned to Abu Dhabi on 26th Sept for active duty...

[newswatcher]

From the Khaleej Times Article:the plane made a safe landing at 6am (1500GMT)

:confused: :confused:

[scanscanscan]

That sounds accurate reporting!