Arann AT72 near Shannon on Sep 20th 2012, engine failure

Last Update: September 20, 2012 / 17:30:14 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 20, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Aer Arann

Flight number
EI-3606

Aircraft Registration
EI-SLL

Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200

ICAO Type Designator
AT72

An Aer Arann Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200, registration EI-SLL performing flight EI-3606 from Shannon (Ireland) to Manchester,EN (UK) with 44 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing through FL178 out of Shannon when the crew declared Mayday reporting the failure of the left hand engine (PW127). Tower at Shannon decided to keep the runway sterile and instructed an arriving Boeing 767-300 to go around and sent all arriving traffic into holds. The crew reported they were able to restart the engine in flight but were still continuing the return to Shannon and downgraded from Mayday to PAN. The aircraft landed safely on Shannon's runway 24 about 15 minutes after declaring emergency and taxied to the apron.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 20, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Aer Arann

Flight number
EI-3606

Aircraft Registration
EI-SLL

Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200

ICAO Type Designator
AT72

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