Swiss 220 blows a donk in CDG

[atakacs]

Haven't seen it reported here - happened on July 25th (https://www.bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/event/serious-incident-to-the-airbus-a220-registered-hb-jcm-and-operated-by-swiss-on-25072019-en-route/)

Interestingly the BEA has resorted to the public (https://www.air-journal.fr/2019-08-21-chute-de-pieces-da220-le-bea-lance-un-appel-a-temoin-5214524.html) to recover the pieces. Also interesting is that they have delegated this one to the NSTB. Is that a common occurence?

[Dave Therhino]

I suspect they delegated it to the NTSB because the engine is a PW geared fan engine which has had a number of issues and the US is the state of design for the engine. Delegation to the state of design is done sometimes even by sophisticated authorities when the issue appears to be design related. Delegation is allowed by mutual consent of the state of occurrence and the state asked to take on the investigation under section 5.1 of Annex 13 of the ICAO Treaty.

[DaveReidUK]

I suspect they delegated it to the NTSB because the engine is a PW geared fan engine which has had a number of issues and the US is the state of design for the engine.

The article linked above confirms that.

[jolihokistix]

PS That should be ‘the second article (in French) linked above’.

[atakacs]

Another one ?

https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/1173680287106109440

[hoss183]

Another Swiss GTF PW donk blown last night. PW1524G on a CS-300, watched it come in. Incident: Swiss BCS3 near Geneva on Sep 16th 2019, engine problem (http://avherald.com/h?article=4cce7a9f&opt=1)

[Sailvi767]

I am not quite sure I would call that blowing a donk. Not even sure from the article if they shut it down.

[atakacs]

I am not quite sure I would call that blowing a donk. Not even sure from the article if they shut it down.
They did (I can confirm) and they might have spread some of the parts over France.