by Spyros Georgilidakis | Mar 11, 2021 | News
On Thursday, a Transcarga Airbus A300 freighter, taking off from Bogota, Colombia had to abort when its left engine had an uncontained failure. There were no injuries – but at least one person got close! The A300 was performing Transcarga’s flight T9-1527, from Bogota...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Dec 4, 2020 | News
A JAL Japan Airlines flight departing from Okinawa stopped climbing and declared an emergency, after a reported uncontained engine failure incident. Parts of the engine separated. The aircraft crew shut down the incident engine, returning for a safe landing back in...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Nov 26, 2020 | News
Following the accident and emergency landing of one of its jets earlier this month, Volga-Dnepr Group decided to ground its entire fleet of An-124 aircraft. The company has 12 of them, including the accident aircraft. Konstantin Vekshin, Volga-Dnepr’s Chief Commercial...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Nov 13, 2020 | News
A heavily-loaded Antonov An-124 returned for landing at Novosibirsk airport in Russia. It appears to have suffered an uncontained engine failure. Volga-Dnepr operates the aircraft, registered RA-82042. Pictures show engine No2 to have lost its fan disk and with it the...
