Polar Air Cargo B748 at Los Angeles on Apr 15th 2016, engine pod strike

Last Update: April 18, 2016 / 20:08:39 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 15, 2016

Classification
Incident

Airline
Polar Air Cargo

Departure
Cincinnati, United States

Destination
Los Angeles, United States

Aircraft Registration
N858GT

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-8

ICAO Type Designator
B748

A Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747-800, registration N858GT performing freight flight PO-916 from Cincinnati,KY to Los Angeles,CA (USA), was on approach to Los Angeles' runway 25L, tower advised of a loss of 10 knots of airspeed on final. The crew went around from low height reporting they received a wind shear warning during the flare, tower advised that it appeared they had scraped their right hand engine (GEnx) on the runway surface, subsequently adding it had been the #4 engine scraping the runway surface. The crew decided to divert to Ontario,CA (USA) for a safe landing about 25 minutes later. The aircraft sustained substantial damage to the #4 engine pod, #4 engine cowling and #4 engine.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Ontario 3 days later.

On Apr 18th 2016 the FAA reported engine #4 actually struck a runway sign.



Metars:
KLAX 151653Z 34015G27KT 10SM FEW010 SCT160 BKN250 19/01 A2988 RMK AO2 PK WND 31030/1555 SLP117 T01940006
KLAX 151553Z 32023G31KT 10SM FEW010 SCT160 BKN220 18/01 A2989 RMK AO2 PK WND 33040/1508 SLP119 T01780006
KLAX 151453Z 34025G35KT 10SM FEW017 SCT160 BKN220 16/01 A2986 RMK AO2 PK WND 35043/1403 SLP110 T01610011 53003
KLAX 151353Z 35019G33KT 10SM FEW150 BKN200 16/01 A2986 RMK AO2 PK WND 32037/1337 SLP110 T01610006
KLAX 151253Z 36012G17KT 10SM FEW150 SCT200 16/01 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP105 T01610006
KLAX 151153Z 36008KT 10SM FEW200 16/02 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP106 T01560017 10194 20156 55001
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 15, 2016

Classification
Incident

Airline
Polar Air Cargo

Departure
Cincinnati, United States

Destination
Los Angeles, United States

Aircraft Registration
N858GT

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-8

ICAO Type Designator
B748

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