THY A320 over Hungary on Mar 1st 2020, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: March 3, 2020 / 13:13:27 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 1, 2020

Classification
Incident

Flight number
TK-1743

Aircraft Registration
TC-JPS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration TC-JPS performing flight TK-1743 from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (Turkey) to Stuttgart (Germany), was enroute at FL360 just having entered Hungarian Airspace about 90nm south of Budapest (Hungary) when the crew requested to divert to Vienna (Austria) due to oil problems with one of the engines (V2527). The crew subsequently reported they had needed to shut the right hand engine down due to engine oil pressure problems. The aircraft drifted down to FL140 and diverted to Vienna for a safe landing on runway 16 about 35 minutes after leaving FL360.

A replacement A321-200 registration TC-JTA continued the flight to Stuttgart and reached the destination with a delay of 6 hours.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 29 hours, then positioned back to Istanbul.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 1, 2020

Classification
Incident

Flight number
TK-1743

Aircraft Registration
TC-JPS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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