Arkefly engine flameout 11th April

[turboP]

Today I heard over england the Arkefly flt 5361 with an engine flameout. do anybody knows what happened and if they landed safely in Shannon? tnx

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Was it a 673 ER?

[turboP]

dunno, I was just on the same freq and heard them.

[babemagnet]

yes it landed safely in shannon. and its already back on his way to aruba! Arkefly 361 PH-AHQ Greetz

[babemagnet]

sorry i just looked on the website of Aruba airport.... and the arkefly from amsterdam is cancelled. So the aircraft is still in shannon. I guess.

[suppie]

Arkefly

A/C still in SNN will return to AMS tmrw pax being picked up by G-OBYH

[joe two]

I thought their 767 was very seriously damaged after a colission on the ground with a light pole in Iraklion, the wing was severely damaged and more than a meter was cut off and fell on the ground.
Did they manage to fix that one ?

[World of Tweed]

Yeah I think they did fix that one. Back in January an aircraft was undergoing significant repair and a Thomson 762/763 was used alternately to cover the longhaul routes affected.

Given the registration noted above I can only assume that we are again helping our Dutch cousins out.

[RingwaySam]

Yeah I think they did fix that one. Back in January an aircraft was undergoing significant repair and a Thomson 762/763 was used alternately to cover the longhaul routes affected.

Wasn't that for PH-AHX which was stranded in Curacao waiting for an engine change. They don't have much luck with there 767s

[World of Tweed]

Can't say I know exactly which aircraft was were and without what part!

Either way it would seem that they are having somewhat poor luck with AOGs at the moment.

[tetraNG]

ground collision was at Chania LGSA and not Iraklion, i think.

[Sir_Fly-a-Lot]

Just bad luck, it happens unfortunately

[GULFPILOT76]

As a matter of fact I think this is their 4th engine failure/shutdown in approximately 3 yrs, wonder what the CAA will say and what will happen to their ETOPS. I'm quite sure they have 120 min. now.

[flybonanza]

B767-300 Erem

The aircraft in question are B767-300 EREM. They have PW4060 engines. They were originally delivered in 1990 to SAS. Thought these details make it easier for some of us to understand the above dialogue.

[76-er]

The engine failure in Brazil occured more than 3 years ago after leaving Recife on its way back to AMS, reportedly because the engine ran out of oil.

Back then, ArkeFly was still known as Holland Exel.

The powerplant exchange in the Antilles doesn't qualify as a failure IIRC, so that makes for a total of only 2.

Once again a bit of a capacity crunch for OR, as one of their planes is presently flying out of BRU on behalf of JetAir while the infamous OO-TUC is down for a C-check.

[dicanio10]

Perhaps they could merge with Globespan with that track record

[siddi]

arkefly engine flameout

The thing was about Arkefly, when the aircraft went back to amsterdam. It had more problems. This time with the fuel jettison pump. On ground in ams there was fuel leaking heavily from the fuel jettison pipe.

ciao ciao

[joe two]

The "lady's and gentlemen , there is absolutely nothing to worry about" mentality still seems to exist.



It is amazing to see how people are still trying to make bananas look straight.

[76-er]

In brazil it was indeed Holland Exel instead of ArkeFly... It was in 2004

March 21st 2005, 1 month and 8 days before Holland Exel's longhaul ops were continued under the TUI-brand.

So yes, only 1 failure.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

The "lady's and gentlemen , there is absolutely nothing to worry about" mentality still seems to exist.

Please expand on just what exactly you are worried about.