Today a Japan Airlines Boeing 777-200 suffered an In-Flight engine failure, 20 minutes after take-off from Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
The 23 year old aircraft, with registration JA8978, was performing flight 904 between Naha to Tokyo when the left Pratt & Whitney engine suffered a failure. The pilots stopped their climb at about 14,000 ft and returned to Naha, landing safely 30 minutes later.
The below video shows the aircraft being towed to the tarmac; you can also see that the engine cover is damaged and that some of the engine blades are missing.
Mainichi website has stated that a passenger explained how they suddenly heard an explosion sound from out of nowhere. Next, the captain announced “Please calm down. I will return to Naha Airport”.
According to the airline, there were 178 passengers and 11 crew members on board and nobody was injured.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan have considered it as a “serious incident” that could have led to a major accident.
Cover photo by: Mainichi.Jp
Fucket them! Catarina, keep smiling babe.
Well said Caterina!
As an engineer have you ever looked at the aircrafts and thought this is what they should do to make the aircraft more efficient and safe? I do realize that Boeing have their engineers who develop the aircraft and they also have their own pilots who test the aircraft, but I have often seen in my line of work that engineers will build an instrument and they will test it, and then usually it works for them. When we run tests to validate the instrument we sometimes find problems, but then we have to work around the problem.
Some people always have to say something
Question it would appear you don’t like Boeing, as all your articles have a negative nature to this one airline compared to its competitor. I can assure you there are just as many problems over at Airbus..Its just like car repair even the Rolls Royce can have its moment.
Hello Clive,
I just report the incidents/accident news when they happen, I don’t take any side from any manufacturer. It’s pure coincidence that my last articles covered more Boeing than other manufacture.
Hope you can understand by work.