American MD82 near Little Rock on Oct 4th 2012, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: October 5, 2012 / 19:28:38 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 4, 2012

Classification
Incident

Flight number
AA-880

Aircraft Registration
N581AA

ICAO Type Designator
MD82

An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration N581AA performing flight AA-880 from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX to Indianapolis,IN (USA), was enroute at FL330 about 90nm southwest of Little Rock,AR (USA) when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine (JT8D) down and diverted to Little Rock for a safe landing about 20 minutes later.

A replacement MD-82 registration N7537A reached Indianapolis with a delay of 2.5 hours.

Passengers reported the crew announced they had to shut the right hand engine down.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 4, 2012

Classification
Incident

Flight number
AA-880

Aircraft Registration
N581AA

ICAO Type Designator
MD82

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