Emirates engine failure

[machdet]

Last night Emirates 776 out of the new King Shaka airport, Durban South Africa had an engine failure. Has anybody got any details on the incident?

[Mike Whiskey Romeo]

Incident: Emirates A332 at Durban on Jun 11th 2010, engine shut down in flight (http://www.avherald.com/h?article=42cd2354&opt=0)

note it says an engine shut down and not necessarily an engine failure :ok:

[EW73]

Forgive me MWR...

Is there another reason for shutting an engine down in the climb and returning?

I'm genuinely curious!!

ew73

PS..pretty soon the "Engine failure or engine severe damage and shutdown" NNC checklist for the worldwide A330 fleet will be moved to the NC section, what with all the A330 engine problems of the past recent times!

[Shrike200]

Ahem....this is a direct quote from the first post of the link supplied above:

An Emirates Airlines Airbus A330-200, registration A6-EKR performing flight EK-776 from Durban (South Africa) to Dubai (United Arab Emirates), was climbing through FL300 out of Durban when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine (Trent 772) down due to low oil pressure. The airplane landed safely on Durban King Shaka Airport's runway 24 about 35 minutes later.

So, technically the engine didn't fail, it was intentionally shut down. There are quite a few reasons for shutting down a functioning engine, this being one of them.