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A Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300, registration B-LAG performing flight CX-173 (dep Sep 19th) from Hong Kong (China) to Adelaide,SA (Australia) with 240 people on board, was descending to 9000 feet on approach to Adelaide when the crew declared PAN reporting the failure of the left hand engine (Trent 772). The crew shut the engine down, advised they would perform a normal landing single engine. The aircraft landed safely on Adelaide's runway 05 about 13 minutes after declaring PAN.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Adelaide 48 hours after landing.

The return flight was delayed, is currently showing a delay of more than 39 hours with an estimated departure at 21:30L Sep 21st, which was about 7.5 hours ago.

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