Flight Safety Information - February 22, 2021 No. 038 In This Issue : Incident: Ryanair B738 at Dublin on Feb 21st 2021, wheel well fire indication on roll out : Incident: Emirates B773 near Amsterdam on Feb 21st 2021, suspected fuel leak : Incident: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine, engine fire : Some Boeing 777 airplanes likely to be removed from service, FAA says : Japan grounds 32 JAL and ANA jets after Boeing engine fire : Learjet 45XR - Fatal Accident (Mexico) : Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i - Fatal Accident (Nigeria) : Boeing 747-412 (BCF) - Uncontained Engine Failure (Netherlands) : Two, including Japanese trainee, die in U.S. military jet crash : The TSI Instructor Qualification & Excellence Course : ERAU - Research Study Incident: Ryanair B738 at Dublin on Feb 21st 2021, wheel well fire indication on roll out A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DWD performing flight FR-205 from London Stansted,EN (UK) to Dublin (Ireland) with 114 people on board, landed on Dublin's runway 28L, during roll out the crew declared "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" reporting a wheel well fire indication and requested fire services on the runway. The crew subsequently queried tower whether tower could see anything, tower reported there was a bit of smoke while they were slowing down, but nothing now. The crew advised they still had a wheel well fire indication (no indication which side), they might need to evacuate, tower advised rescue vehicles were just entering the runway. Fire services reported there was no fire visible. The crew advised they still had both engines running and hadn't started the evacuation yet and requested the fire services again to have a close look at the undercarriage for any fire. Fire services again reported seeing nothing, the crew advised they still had a fire indication. Fire services used their thermal imaging equipment and reported they had no indication from the outside of the aircraft. The crew advised, they wanted to taxi to the apron and requested a close escort by fire services. The aircraft taxied to the apron. The airline reported a minor technical issue. The passengers disembarked normally. http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35fffa&opt=0 Incident: Emirates B773 near Amsterdam on Feb 21st 2021, suspected fuel leak An Emirates Boeing 777-300, registration A6-EQJ performing flight EK-201 from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute at FL340 over the North Sea about 250nm northwest of Amsterdam (Netherlands) when the crew decided to descend to FL200 and entered a hold, then turn around and divert to Amsterdam due to a suspected fuel leak. The crew advised both engines were still running. The aircraft landed safely on Amsterdam's runway 18C about 90 minutes after leaving FL340. Emergency services inspected the aircraft but did not find any leaks. The crew was relayed the request by maintenance to keep both engines running even at the gate until further notice. The aircraft is still on the ground in Amsterdam about 3 hours after landing. http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35e7fb&opt=0 Incident: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine, engine fire VIDEO A United Boeing 777-200, registration N772UA performing flight UA-328 from Denver,CO to Honolulu,HI (USA) with 231 passengers and 10 crew, was in the initial climb out of Denver's runway 25 when the right hand engine's (PW4077) inlet separated associated with the failure of the engine. The crew declared Mayday reporting an engine failure. The aircraft stopped the climb at about 13000 feet, the crew requested to return to Denver after running the checklists. ATC offered any runway, they would make it happen. The aircraft returned to Denver for a safe landing on runway 26 about 23 minutes after departure. The aircraft stopped on the runway for a check by emergency services. Emergency services advised of an active fire within the right hand engine and extinguished the fire a few minutes later. The aircraft was subsequently towed off the runway to a remote parking stand, where passengers disembarked and were bussed to the terminal. There were no injuries. The engine inlet fell into the neighbourhood of Broomfield,CO, located about 16nm west of Denver near 13th and Elmwood Street, the debris also struck through the roof of an adjacent house. Broomfield police reported that although debris impacted the neighbourhood and damaged a number of homes, there were no injuries on the ground. The debris field expands over a nautical mile. Ground observers reported hearing the sound of an explosion like bang, smoke and saw the debris falling down. The aircraft continued flying. Another ground observer, John Sloan (also see reader comments below), reported: "I was walking home from lunch and heard a boom. I thought it might be a fighter going supersonic, but when I looked up I noticed a 2-engine commercial plane on a roughly west-bound heading. There was a fairly low cloud deck (maybe a few thousand feet) and he was just below it, so it was difficult to discern visual details, but I suddenly heard his engine noise go from silent to moderately loud (that might have been what made me notice him) - not sure if he applied power or if it was a trick of acoustics. Looking behind him, there was what looked like a large black puff of smoke (but it might have just been clouds). Similarly, it looked like there was a thin trail of black smoke coming from the starboard engine, but again, it was hard to make out and might have just been a contrail. As he passed overhead the smoke trail seemed to go away. Once past me, he might have begun a turn to port (back towards the airport), but he vanished into the clouds so it was hard to tell. It looked like the aircraft was under control the whole time it was visible." The following day John Sloan wrote in his reader comment: "Two things: 1) I was giving Simon a heads up to look for a report out of DEN - if it was anything, I thought it was just something like a (big) compressor stall. That was why so many caveats were there - I wasn't sure at the time that the aircraft had had a problem. I didn't realize it was going to be widely reported until my mother texted me a couple of hours later asking if any of the plane parts came down close to me. 2) Something I omitted that I should have put in: After I got home I imagined how many thumb-widths at arm's length it would take to occlude it (from memory), and plugged that into similar triangles and the length of a 737 (didn't realize it was a 777) to get an estimated altitude and got 2-4 thousand meters. I thought the cloud deck was only 2000 feet AGL or so, so I didn't believe the numbers. I did change "a couple" to "a few" though. Turns out it was ~8000 feet AGL. I should have believed more in the math!" The FAA reported the aircraft experienced a right hand engine failure and is aware of debris on the ground along the flight path of the aircraft. The FAA as well as the NTSB have opened investigations, the NTSB is leading the investigations. The NTSB stated they have opened an investigation into the occurrence, "Denver-based NTSB investigators are responding". On Feb 13th 2018 a fractured and separated fan blade had caused the engine inlet and cowl to separate from the right hand engine of B772 registration N773UA, see Incident: United B772 over Pacific on Feb 13th 2018, fan blade, engine cowl and inlet separated in flight, blade debris impacted fuselage. http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35503b&opt=0 Some Boeing 777 airplanes likely to be removed from service, FAA says (CNN)The Federal Aviation Administration is stepping up inspections of Boeing 777 airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines and it's likely some will be removed from service, according to a statement from FAA Administrator Steve Dickson. "We reviewed all available safety data following yesterday's incident," Dickson said, referring to the United Airlines flight that was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff. "Based on the initial information, we concluded that the inspection interval should be stepped up for the hollow fan blades that are unique to this model of engine, used solely on Boeing 777 airplanes," Dickson said. Following the FAA announcement, United Airlines said in a statement that it is "immediately" removing 24 Boeing 777 planes that are powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000 series engines "out of an abundance of caution." The 24 aircrafts are part of the 52 777s in the United fleet. The other 28 remain in storage. The move is voluntary and temporary, United said, and should only disrupt "a small number of customers." https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/us/boeing-777-airplanes-federal-aviation- administration/index.html Japan grounds 32 JAL and ANA jets after Boeing engine fire Same engine family was under scrutiny after trouble on Okinawa-Tokyo flight TOKYO -- Japanese transport authorities have told domestic airlines not to fly 32 passenger jets that use the same family of engine that burst into flames over the weekend on a Boeing 777's U.S. flight, strewing debris along its path. Sunday's move by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism affects 13 planes operated by Japan Airlines and 19 operated by All Nippon Airways, part of ANA Holdings. None of these planes are scheduled to fly Monday. The decision comes after a United Airlines flight from Denver to Honolulu was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday local time over what the carrier called "an engine failure shortly after departure." The incident yielded dramatic images of the flaming Pratt & Whitney engine and fallen debris, but no injuries were reported aboard the plane or on the ground. "Big thanks to the pilot and crew for safely landing the aircraft," Denver International Airport said in a tweet. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it had begun an investigation. JAL and ANA had grounded the 32 planes on their own Sunday before the ministry's instructions. A JAL flight to Haneda from Naha in Okinawa was canceled as a result. The stoppage will allow time to consider additional measures in response to the United engine failure, according to the ministry. The ministry said an engine in the same PW4000 family suffered trouble on a JAL 777 en route to Haneda from Naha on Dec. 4. It ordered stricter inspections in response. The earlier failure came minutes after takeoff. The plane made an emergency landing with damage to the cowl, or engine cover, and elsewhere. No one was injured. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Japan-grounds-32-JAL-and-ANA-jets- after-Boeing-engine-fire Learjet 45XR - Fatal Accident (Mexico) Date: Sunday 21 February 2021 Time: 09:45 Type: Learjet 45XR Operator: Fuerza Aérea Mexicana Registration: 3912 C/n / msn: 45-325 First flight: 2007 Crew: Fatalities: / Occupants: Passengers: Fatalities: / Occupants: Total: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 Aircraft damage: Destroyed Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: near Xalapa Airport (JAL) ( Mexico) Phase: Takeoff (TOF) Nature: Military Departure airport: Xalapa-El Lencero Airport (JAL/MMJA), Mexico Destination airport: Villahermosa-Capitan Carlos Perez Airport (VSA/MMVA), Mexico Narrative: A Learjet 45XR operated by the Mexican Air Force, crashed near Xalapa Airport, Mexico, and burst into flames. All six on board suffered fatal injuries. Flight tracking website Flightaware shows the aircraft arrived at Xalapa Airport at 09:05 hours local time after a flight from Mexico City. The Mexican Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional reported that the accident occurred at 09:45 after takeoff. https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210221-1 Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i - Fatal Accident (Nigeria) Date: Sunday 21 February 2021 Time: 11:48 Type: Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i Operator: Nigerian Air Force - NAF Registration: NAF201 C/n / msn: FL-585? First flight: 2008 Crew: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 Passengers: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 Total: Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 Aircraft damage: Destroyed Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: NE of Abuja International Airport (ABV) ( Nigeria) Phase: Approach (APR) Nature: Military Departure airport: Abuja International Airport (ABV/DNAA), Nigeria Destination airport: Minna Airport (MXJ/DNMN), Nigeria Narrative: A Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i airplane was destroyed when it impacted terrain shortly after takeoff following a reported loss of engine power near near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (ABV/DNNA), Abuja, Nigeria. The aircraft crashed on the final approach path of Abuja Airport runway 22. The seven people onboard perished. https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210221-0 Boeing 747-412 (BCF) - Uncontained Engine Failure (Netherlands) Date: 20-FEB-2021 Time: 16:12 LT Type: Boeing 747-412 (BCF) Owner/operator: Longtail Aviation Registration: VQ-BWT C/n / msn: 24975/838 Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Minor Location: over Meerssen - Netherlands Phase: Initial climb Nature: Cargo Departure airport: Maastricht/Aachen Airport (MST/EHBK) Destination airport: New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) Investigating agency: Dutch Safety Board Narrative: Longtail Aviation flight LGT5504, a Boeing 747-412 (BCF), suffered an uncontained engine failure of the no.1 PW4056 engine. Blade fragments were ejected from the engine, coming down in the village of Meerssen, 2 km past the end of the runway. At that point the aircraft was climbing through 1400 feet. The flight crew initially declared a Mayday and subsequently requested vectors for a holding pattern at FL100 to dump fuel. The flight then diverted to Liège Airport, Belgium, as this airport had a longer runway. A safe landing was made at 17:10 local time, one hour after takeoff from Maastricht Airport. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/248036 Two, including Japanese trainee, die in U.S. military jet crash The T-38 military training jet was based out of a site near Columbus, Mississippi. Two pilots, including a trainee from Japan, died when a military training jet crashed near Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama on Friday, officials said. Executive airport director Marshall J. Taggart Jr. said officials were informed about the crash in an adjacent, wooded area just after 5 p.m. The T-38 trainer was based out of the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. Taggart said he believed the aircraft was flying to a base in Tallahassee, Florida. "The pilots were flying a training mission at the time of the incident," the Air Force said. The identities of the victims were withheld "out of respect for the families," Col. Seth Graham, commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing, said at a news conference Saturday. He described the student airman as a 24-year-old from Japan. The instructor, he said, was a 25-year-old Air Force lieutenant. Japan's defense minister, Nobuo Kishi, said the younger pilot was a Japan Air Self- Defense Force first lieutenant in the United States for training on the T-38. The pilots were preparing to land when the jet crashed nearly two miles from a runway at the Montgomery facility, the defense minister said. "As the defense minister, I feel tremendous grief," Kishi said. Graham said the duo was on the first leg of a two-leg mission in which they would stop and spend the night at a base before carrying on "cross country." But he did not give specifics about the pair's itinerary. "There are no words that can describe the sadness that accompanies the loss of our teammates," Graham said in an updated Air Force statement Friday night. The Montgomery airport abuts an Air Force facility known as Dannelly Field, home of Alabama Air National Guard's 187th Fighter Wing. It's not clear if a pilot was trying to land there. "A safety investigation board will convene to investigate the accident," the Air Force said. The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency told residents to stay away from the area Friday night. Taggart said the crash did not change the arrival and departure schedule at the airport. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-dead-after-military-jet-crashes-near-alabama- airport-n1258421 ERAU - Research Study Dear Pilot, You are being asked to participate in a research study of your opinions on urban air mobility. This study is expected to take approximately 10 minutes of your time. 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