Around 2 p.m. Monday, Air Canada flight AC001 took off from Pearson Airport en route to Japan, when onlookers noticed the plane was smoking. Air Canada officials say one of the Boeing 777’s engines shut down and the crew carried out a routine emergency procedure that saw the aircraft carrying 318 passengers land safely back at Pearson around 4 p.m. (news.nationalpost.com) More...
Aircrafts are designed to fly with one engine and our pilots are trained to fly in such occurrences,” Does anyone proofread these articles? Aircrafts? Is that like deers?
An Air Canada Boeing 777 passenger jet suffered an “engine shutdown” after taking off in Toronto on Monday afternoon, which forced the plane to dump its fuel and make an emergency landing.
The Japan-bound Flight 001 took off from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport at 2:10 p.m. ET, and returned to make its emergency landing at 3:53 p.m. ET.
This really should not have been news, No one got hurt or Died, Plane landed safely, Crew did what they were trained to do.. Crew looses and engine, executes a "Air Return" to field, landed safely, I assume he declared an emergency. So what, I work maintenance control. Air Returns don't happen every day and it is for a numerous amount of reasons, and this one makes the news because it coughed a little metal. If people knew how much metal actually falls to the sky they would really be surprised.
707 in air -- 1 engine konks off -pilot says no problem - we will be 1 hour late - 2nd and 3rd goes - pilot says no problem - we will be 3 hours late - a passenger says - gawd if that 4th engine goes we will be up here all night.
An ETOPS quqalified aircraft is supposed to have highly reliable engines that are tested to exacting standards! So said Boeing when they spearheaded the ETOPS. This is some engine, so reliable that it can throw spares in the air.In a nutshell the philosophy of ETOPS is that "Two engines are more abundant than Four"
Fuel dump with full fuel, the rate is 2,500kgs per minute, so to get to around MLDG weight if they took off at MTOFF weight of 351,300kgs to 251,300kgs you work it out. Not too bad considering it's the only 2nd failure I know about of B777 in about 15 years, last one being EK out of Melbourne Oz.
Sorry lady; your insurance policy doesn't cover falling aircraft debris but we will however fax you a copy of our recommended shops that would be more than happy to assist you in making all of your nessecary repairs.
An ACA 772 heading the RJTT turned around just a few minutes into the flight. several people called in to report debris from the engine along the flight path.
An Air Canda Boeing 777 airplane was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Toronto's Pearson International airport after debris fell from the plane.
