UTAir AT72 at Tyumen on Jun 22nd 2018, oil smoke in cabin

Last Update: June 23, 2018 / 19:36:59 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 22, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
UTAir

Flight number
UT-106

Destination
Tyumen, Russia

Aircraft Registration
VQ-BLI

Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200

ICAO Type Designator
AT72

A UTAir Avions de Transport Regional AT-72-212A, registration VQ-BLI performing flight UT-106 from Ekaterinburg to Tyumen (Russia) with 70 passengers, was descending towards Tyumen when the right hand engine (PW127) suffered a fault, subsequently heated engine oil fumes entered the cabin through the air conditioning system. The crew shut the bleed air #2 down, which stopped the smoke. The aircraft continued for a safe landing in Tyumen.

Passengers reported the engine emitted bang about 25 minutes prior to landing, a few seconds later smoke entered the cabin.

Rosaviatsia reported the #2 engine suffered a fault during the approach to Tyumen, as result of the fault smoke from overheated engine oil entered the cabin through the air conditioning system. There was no engine fire, the crew trained to land the aircraft on single engine was completely in control of the situation. The aircraft landed safely and taxied to the apron, where the passengers disembarked normally. Rosaviatsia installed a commission to investigate the occurrence.

The airline reported a malfunction occurred in one of the engines which caused smoke to appear briefly in the cabin. Information of a fire is incorrect. The crew worked the checklists and landed the aircraft in normal mode, taxied to the apron where passengers disembarked normally. The airline is investigating a possible foreign object ingestion into the engine.

The aircraft was carrying Peruvian soccer fans to the next match of Peru within the world championship.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 22, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
UTAir

Flight number
UT-106

Destination
Tyumen, Russia

Aircraft Registration
VQ-BLI

Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200

ICAO Type Designator
AT72

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