Engine debris of a Norwegian Boeing 787 damaged cars and roofs in the vicinity of Rome’s Fiumicino airport, when they fell off from the plane after its takeoff on Saturday, 10th August 2019.
A spokeswoman from Italy’s civil protection agency confirmed the incident to Euronews, adding that most of the pieces fell around the area of Isola Sacra in the city of Fiumicino not far from the airport.
“The fragments caused damages to cars, houses, roofs, and other objects in people’s gardens.”
But there were no injuries or casualties reported.
She added that civil protection officers went to the scene upon the request of local police, to assess the damage.
A spokeswoman for Norwegian airlines said that a flight from Rome to Los Angeles had to go back to Fiumicino airport “due to indications of a technical failure of one of the engines”. She added that the aircraft landed safely.
The aircraft took off from Rome’s Fiumicino airport bound for Los Angeles as flight DY7115. The flight had 298 passengers on-board. Shortly after take-off the aircraft suffered a “motor failure” and had to circle back to land again at Fiumicino.
According to the Italian press, the falling debris was close to a town center as well as the crowded beaches of the Roman coast.
Italy’s flight safety agency (ENAC) is investigating the incident according to Italian media reports.
The aircraft
According to Airfleets, LN-LND is a 5.5 year-old Boeing 787-8 leased from AerCap. Norwegian is one of the airlines that has had engine issues (Rolls Royce Trent 1000) with its 787s.
Although this incident is likely caused from the engine, on a related issue airlines taking delivery of 787 Dreamliners, built at Boeing’s South Carolina facility, are complaining about ongoing production mistakes and quality control issues.
Those RR Trent-1000’s are really a problem! Its one of these so-called packages or version of the engine itself thats the problem! Again offering too much too quickly,obviously the technology has not been tested enough and there is a constant problem?
What i cannot understand is why is their other engines that are even bigger more powerful having no problems and operating fine? The XWB-TRENT,Trent7000 both new and fine! Whats in these engines that are so different to their others in manufacture thats causing all this ? At the moment i would fly on a one still but as i have said there is only one other engine halfway across the Atlantic if one fails from this fault.Cost cuting and using new materials that have not been tested long enough in pre-production stages is now showing its effects it seems? Its a material failure by the sound of it they use for a part thats failing.
I am hoping to fly on BA first B787-10 when they do training flights i am sure they will do as with the A350 they are still doing but wandering will that be plagued with errors! The Singapore one seems to be operating fine last i looked and they operate with RR engines i think,well they generally pick RR not sure though on this version?
Unfortunately, the real news here is: why none of the USA news agencies is reporting this news? Boeing planes are made in US, and public mistrust will bring down ticket sales, leading to downsides for Boeing (the manufacturer) and the US airlines offering the service (the buyers). Who care about whether people in US should know about this issue as it pertains to their safety… if you fly tomorrow with a 787 wouldn’t you want to know that this inadmissible situation happened just a few hrs ago.. and that no report yet disproved nor proved that it may happen again? US news is covering it up or has not reported the news because they are too busy covering the presidentials that they forget to alert the public of a potential risk?
What can we do to let them report the news? I even contacted the news agencies to give them the tip… but nothing. Help me to let the public know
My daughter and son were on this flight. It appears that Norwegian is
trying to downplay the whole episode. An “indication” of technical
failure”? Pieces of an engine falling and the aircraft vibrating is
most definitely not an “indication of failure; it’s a pretty sure
thing. The airline’s official word is that the flight was cancelled.
How do you cancel a flight that is in the air? They did not help with
the re booking of passengers . Despite the unacceptable way the airline
handled this I would like to acknowledge the pilot who brought that
plane and my kids back on one engine and with blown tires , safely. I
was in flight on the same airline at the same time and the flight
attendants on my flight were acceptionally kind to me also. I would
advise them all to look for other employment. There is no way this
company survives with this lack of customer service.
OMG. this is horrible. will we ever again fly with confidence, especially with Boeing aircrafts?
This brings back memories of the doomed Concorde flight that exploded after allegedly rupturing a fuel tank in an event that started with debris from a CO jet that just took off.