Ryanair B738 near Berlin on Jun 22nd 2012, fuel leak

Last Update: June 23, 2012 / 13:28:46 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 22, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Ryanair

Flight number
FR-1432

Destination
Trapani, Italy

Aircraft Registration
EI-DYJ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DYJ performing flight FR-1432 from Stockholm Skavsta (Sweden) to Trapani (Italy), was enroute at FL370 over Pilsen (Czech Republic) about 160nm south of Berlin Schoenefeld (Germany) when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Berlin Schoenefeld due to a suspected fuel leak. The aircraft descended to FL360, later FL290 enroute to Berlin and landed safely on Schoenefeld's runway 25 about 40 minutes after turning around.

Maintenance found a leak in one of the lines supplying fuel to an engine (CFM56).

A replacement Boeing 737-800 registration EI-DHF departed Schoenefeld 5 hours after landing and reached Trapani with a delay of 6:10 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 22, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Ryanair

Flight number
FR-1432

Destination
Trapani, Italy

Aircraft Registration
EI-DYJ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

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