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Boeing Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami After 'Engine Malfunction' (nytimes.com) 29

A Boeing cargo plane headed for Puerto Rico was diverted Thursday night after taking off from Miami International Airport because of engine trouble, according to an official and flight data. From a report: Atlas Air Flight 5Y095 landed safely after experiencing an "engine malfunction" shortly after departure, the airline said early Friday. It was unclear what kind of cargo the plane was carrying. Data collected by FlightAware, a flight tracking company, showed the aircraft was a Boeing 747-8 that left its gate at Miami International at 10:11 p.m. on Thursday and returned to the airport about 50 minutes later. The website also showed that the plane traveled 60 miles in total. Reuters adds: The Atlas Air Flight 5Y095 was on its way to San Juan, Puerto Rico from Miami International Airport on late Thursday evening. The pilot made a Mayday call around 0333 GMT to report an engine fire and requested to return back to the airport, according to multi-channel recordings of conversations between the air traffic control and the plane available on liveatc.net. "We have a engine fire," one of the plane crew said, disclosing that there were five people on board.
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Boeing Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami After 'Engine Malfunction'

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  • by dbialac ( 320955 ) on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:13AM (#64172071)
    There's a decent chance this is maintenance and not manufacturing related. Still, it could be either and is still negligent.
    • by Pizza ( 87623 ) on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:37AM (#64172129) Homepage Journal

      Exactly, don't jump to conclusions.

      It could be the result of a bird strike, ground (or flight!) crew error, or any number of "routine" hazards outside the control of Boeing or maintenance personnel.

      (I should also point out that Boeing is _not_ the manufacturer or maintenance of the engines; I think those are exclusively GE's GEnx on the 747-8)

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      There's a decent chance this is maintenance and not manufacturing related. Still, it could be either and is still negligent.

      This, but we should wait until the report to determine the cause. Could be anything, point is that the plane made it safely onto the ground. I suspect it's quite an old B744 which complicates matters.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:43AM (#64172145)

    Before everyone flies off the handle at Boeing, consider the following:

    1) There are any number of things that can cause an engine fire, including bird ingestion, foreign object ingestion, etc, that are NOT the result of lack of maintenance or a manufacturing defect

    2) Boeing does not make aircraft engines. The Engines on the 747-8 are made by GE.

    3) It is up to the Airline, not Boeing, to ensure that engines are maintained according to GE's requirements.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    This on its own would be a (more or less) non-event. Engines fail from time to time, and planes land because of it - it happens. No one dies, and apart from adding several hours to their journeys, not much to report by the passengers. This was cargo, so no passengers to even tweet about it.

    However, it's Boeing - their goose is pretty well cooked at this point, and the great galactic chef if just basting it a few last times before taking it out of the oven. Dodgy metaphors aside, the media is circling around

  • If just one of these news sources bothered to get the tail number of the aircraft, either from a picture of the plane or from someone with an upgraded Flightaware account, the age of the aircraft could be determined from the FAA lookup database.

    It is possibly a manufacturing problem if the plane was the last one ever produced, which was bought by Atlas Air, and is just under a year old. It is very unlikely to be a manufacturing problem if the aircraft is a dozen years old and the engines have been overhaule

    • by Striek ( 1811980 )

      AgTiger posted a link to LiveATC in another thread [slashdot.org]. It was an Atlas Air aircraft, manufactured in 2015.

    • FOD from the runway,

      For those who don't know their aviation TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms - a simplified form of QCAWs(footnote)), an alternative spelling is "Concorde".

      (footnoteQCAW - Quarto-Character Abbreviated Words.)

  • by thesandbender ( 911391 ) on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:26AM (#64172303)
    In all the rush to associate this with other notable Boeing failures, I wonder how many people are going to miss/ignore the fact that Boeing doesn't make engines.
  • The plane is relatively young, was delivered ~ 8 years ago. The engines are GEnx type. Only type alowed for this variation of the 747.

    While the probability is high that this is related to either bad maintenance or defects in the engine itself, is not a good look for American manufacturing or technical prowess.

    Having said that, the article is clickbaity, as it puts boeing front and centre, from the title onwards, when in reality, atlas air and/or GE are the most likely culprits.

  • So what? This is a daily occurrence and affects Airbus as well as other mfrs all the time.

  • this happens every day, all over the world. It's only front page news because it has "Boeing" in the name. Likely this airframe is older than the karma whore who posted it.

    complete nothingburger.

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