Qatar B788 near Moscow on Dec 30th 2019, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: January 6, 2020 / 18:32:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 30, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
QR-179

Departure
Doha, Qatar

Destination
Oslo, Norway

Aircraft Registration
A7-BCO

ICAO Type Designator
B788

A Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8, registration A7-BCO performing flight QR-179 from Doha (Qatar) to Oslo (Norway), was enroute at FL320 about 180nm west of Moscow Domodedovo (Russia) when the right hand engine (GEnx) failed prompting the crew to shut the engine down. The aircraft drifted down and diverted to Moscow Domodedovo for a safe landing on runway 32L about 40 minutes after leaving FL320.

A replacement Boeing 787-8 registration A7-BDD was dispatched from Doha to Moscow, resumed the flight and reached Oslo with a delay of about 12.5 hours.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground until Jan 3rd 2020 for 101 hours (4 days 5 hours), then positioned back to Doha and resumed service on Jan 4th 2020.

The airline reported the aircraft diverted to Moscow for technical reasons.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 30, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
QR-179

Departure
Doha, Qatar

Destination
Oslo, Norway

Aircraft Registration
A7-BCO

ICAO Type Designator
B788

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