Aer Lingus A330 engine trouble yesterday

FWVT

http://avherald.com/h?article=45e803ee&opt=4096

An Aer Lingus Airbus A330-300, registration EI-EAV performing flight EI-137 from Dublin (Ireland) to Boston,MA (USA) with 258 passengers and 10 crew, was enroute at FL340 about 140nm northwest of Dublin when the crew decided to return to Dublin reporting some issue with the right hand engine (CF6).
The aircraft landed safely back on Dublin's runway 10 about 35 minutes later.The aircraft was able to depart again after two hours on the ground and reached Boston as flight EI-1137 with a delay of 4.5 hours.
The airline confirmed a technical issue prompting the return.

Shamrock231

Interesting as EI-EAV only returned from a C check in Bordeaux 10 days ago on the 19th of February.

Wonder if something was messed up by the boys in Bordeaux?

Tenger

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Shamrock231

Tenger wrote: »

Well if it returned 10 days ago it would have completed at least 16-18 flights since then....so I doubt it. Aircraft have tech snags all the time.

Well things can take a little while to surface, 10 days isn't all that long in the scheme of things for something to rear its head. Of course you're right though, could be totally unrelated, just a little more unusual I guess seeing as it was supposed to have just come out from a thorough servicing...

kona

Shamrock231 wrote: »

Interesting as EI-EAV only returned from a C check in Bordeaux 10 days ago on the 19th of February.

Wonder if something was messed up by the boys in Bordeaux?

No.

Suasdaguna1

Anyone have a heads up what was the actual problem?

kona

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

Anyone have a heads up what was the actual problem?

Why should the public know , next thing it's a headline in some rag?

mickdw

Cause maybe they are interested?
Certainly if I was on that flight, I would definitely want to know.

kona

mickdw wrote: »

Cause maybe they are interested?
Certainly if I was on that flight, I would definitely want to know.

Fair enough.

orionm_73

Would the engines be included in the C check though? I was under the impression that they had their own maintenance schedule and checks. So if it was an engine problem the C check on the airframe wouldn't have picked up on it.

donvito99

Obviously nothing major seeing as it departed a couple of hours later.

Suasdaguna1

donvito99 wrote: »

Obviously nothing major seeing as it departed a couple of hours later.

I'm sorry , turning back is a major event with multiple redundancy systems, together with an overweight landing, hence I asked the ?

Maybe it was a medical issue which can force ones cards.......

lintdrummer

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

I'm sorry , turning back is a major event with multiple redundancy systems, together with an overweight landing, hence I asked the ?

Maybe it was a medical issue which can force ones cards.......

It's an etops aircraft, you'd be surprised at the little things that can cause them to turn back.

gihj

kona wrote: »

No.

Wow.
What an insightful answer.
God forbid folk on an aviation forum might be interested.

Suasdaguna1

lintdrummer wrote: »

It's an etops aircraft, you'd be surprised at the little things that can cause them to turn back.

More the reason you continue as I muddy the waters......etops dispatch requirements evaporate the second the parking brake is released. In many cases you can continue but are called back to base as they can't fix the snag at destination. It's rare but it happens, I suspect this might have been the case.....

A320

orionm_73 wrote: »

Would the engines be included in the C check though?

Yes

kona

gihj wrote: »

Wow.
What an insightful answer.
God forbid folk on an aviation forum might be interested.

I'm sure they would!

drdeadlift

Was there a crew change ?

Deep Thought

my sis was on the flight...like everyone else they were just happy that they turned back

They were told that the de-icer on Engine 2 wasnt working well...returned, fixed, refuelled and off again

I am only the postman....

FWVT

Another Aer Lingus had a problem at Barcelona on Monday.

http://avherald.com/h?article=45ec3313&opt=4096

An Aer Lingus Airbus A320-200, registration EI-DEB performing flight EI-565 from Barcelona,SP (Spain) to Dublin (Ireland), was climbing through FL150 out of Barcelona when the crew reported a technical problem requiring them to return to Barcelona, normal operation of the aircraft, no assistance was needed. The aircraft stopped the climb at FL170 and turned back towards Barcelona, the crew advised they needed to stay out of icing conditions. The aircraft landed safely back on Barcelona's runway 07L about 20 minutes after departure.

arbour

A week later and the same flight is returning to Dublin just after take off. Anyone know if its same aircraft? Or the reason for return

highlydebased

arbour wrote: »

A week later and the same flight is returning to Dublin just after take off. Anyone know if its same aircraft? Or the reason for return

Different aircraft- today it was EI-LAX