Beijing, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) According to the report of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), an Airbus A380 superjumbo passenger plane from Paris to Los Angeles of Air France had an engine failure at an altitude of 10,000 meters in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30, local time, and made an emergency landing at a small airport in Canada.
When this flight AF66 flew to the western airspace of Greenland on the 30th, the fairing of an engine on the right suddenly burst and the parts were exposed to the air. The pilot made an emergency transfer to Goose Bay Airport in Canada and made a forced landing.
An Air France spokesman told AFP that the passenger plane was carrying 496 passengers and 24 crew members, and no one was injured in the incident.
However, because the airport that forced to land didn’t have enough facilities to receive the A380, they stayed on the plane afterwards, waiting for Air France to send other planes to pick them up and continue their journey.
On September 30th, local time, an Airbus A380 flight of Air France from Paris to Los Angeles had its engine disintegrated in the air while flying across the Atlantic, and then the plane made an emergency landing at the airport in the Canadian town of Gusbay.
The engine burst in mid-air?
David Rehmar, a former aircraft engineer, happened to take this flight. He told the BBC that according to his experience, the accident should be caused by the failure of the turbofan at the front end of the engine.
Hamada said that there was a sudden loud noise and the plane shook. "This made me think that the engine should fail." He thought the plane was going to fall.
However, it took only 30 seconds for the plane to stabilize. Hamada said that the pilot quickly turned off the engine that had an accident.
Another passenger, Pamela Adams, told CBC that she was doing some stretching. "Suddenly we were at an altitude of 35,000 feet, it was like hitting a jeep." "But the pilot recovered perfectly."
The plane continued to fly for about an hour with the remaining three engines, and then landed at Goose Bay Airport in Labrador, eastern Canada.
Photos and videos uploaded to social media by passengers on board show that the fairing of the engine was completely damaged, the parts were completely exposed, and the right wing where the engine was located also had some surface damage.
At present, the specific cause of the accident remains to be investigated, but Hamada told the BBC that after all, it happened at an altitude of 10,000 feet, and he didn’t think it was a bird strike.
The official statement of Air France only confirmed that the engine was "seriously damaged" and praised the crew for "perfectly coping with this serious accident".
What kind of place is Goose Bay Airport?
According to the official website of Goose Bay Airport, the airport was built in December, 1941 to meet the demand for refueling of trans-Pacific flights derived from World War II. During World War II, Goose Bay received 24,000 flights from Canada and the United States, making it the busiest airport in the world at that time.
At present, the airport runway can handle the largest aircraft in the world, and it is also a training place for the air forces of Canada, Britain, Germany and Italy.
However, in the civil aviation sector, the airport is operated by only three regional airlines, which also means that the civil aviation terminal has the ability to receive smaller aircraft.
Hamada told the BBC that Air France told them to dispatch two Boeing 777s to pick up stranded passengers on Flight AF66. Air France later confirmed that it had dispatched one of its Boeing 777 passenger planes to Goose Bay, and rented another Boeing 737 passenger plane to participate in the evacuation.
Engebretson, another passenger on Flight AF66, told the BBC that the crew had been working for a long time, but they were still trying to serve. The flight attendants distributed food to the passengers, and the captain also walked out of the cockpit to talk to the passengers. Some passengers complained about being trapped on the tarmac for more than ten hours online, and some passengers posted photos of food sent by relevant parties.
On September 30th, local time, an Airbus A380 flight of Air France from Paris to Los Angeles had its engine disintegrated in the air while flying across the Atlantic, and then the plane made an emergency landing at the airport in the Canadian town of Gusbay.
Has Airbus A380 had such an accident before?
The first A380 passenger plane was put into operation in Singapore Airlines in October 2007. According to the information on the tracking website of the civil aviation passenger plane, the Air France A380 passenger plane in trouble has been in service for about eight years, and there has been no major failure before.
The last serious accident of A380 was in November 2010. Shortly after Qantas)QF32 flight QF32 flew from Singapore to Sydney, one of the engines on the left side broke down and the fairing fell off, so it immediately returned to Singapore Changi Airport and made a safe landing. Broken parts were found on the streets of Batam Island, Indonesia, on the other side of Singapore.
The accident investigation found that the engine oil supply throat was defective and there was fuel leakage. Rolls-Royce, the engine manufacturer, then revised the engine design.
However, the Air France A380 passenger plane that was in trouble this time did not use the rolls royce engine, but another recognized manufacturer — — Engine Alliance)— — Products.
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