QFA220 engine problem rumour
 

QF1287 on 04/07 was VH-X4A last flight. Rumours of an engine problem. Any info from the CBR refueller?

Just over a month on line.

Probably a good thing as that’ll enable them to catch up on training their crew.

Paying only A$224K (US$146K) before tax a year for a training captain on a 71 Tonne Jet wouldn’t encourage many applications I’d imagine.

No idea about QF but did see a reference re global engine shortages on 220s somewhere else on the planet.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/VHX4A

Where there is smoke there well may be fire in this case by the look of it.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....95e8cad68.jpeg
Is that the aircraft?

Haven’t they been nursing these engines already?

How do you figure that? -X4A was delivered late last year wasn't it?

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...n-in-canberra/


Looks like just over a month on line to me.

That might have been the first fare-paying flight but -X4A has been flying pretty much five days a week since the start of the year.

It may have however the thread starter said a month on line.

The information I have is the airframe and therefore engine has approx 300 hours on it. If it is an engine failure/removal that’s not very good from new.

If you google ‘A220 engine problems’, you’ll see a list of articles about the engine issues. 300 odd hours is not good enough though.

I believe there have been several sectors cancelled over the last week due to Tech Crew Sickness

We clearly have different understandings of what the phrase "on line" means. Engines and airframes tend to be unable to distinguish between revenue and non-revenue hours.

Project Zero

Amazing GT and the media aren’t on to this. You can clearly see a groundie pumping what I reckon is Tetrazine into the Turbo Encabulator. Typical 220 engine problem.

Wouldn’t have happened if it was flown by SH.

X4A operated a MEL-CBR flight today, so whatever problem existed has been sorted.

The problems with the P&W GTF engines had to do with ones were manufactured from 2016-2020 before the “Block D” upgrade, which has solved most of the issues and presumably is incorporated into all
new build engines:

https://airinsight.com/pratt-whitney...th-gtf-in-may/

Positioning for replacement, it won’t fly for a while now.

Nope, check FR24, it just got airborne 5 minutes ago out of CBR on the return revenue service back to MEL.