A turbine blade that was ejected from the engine of a transatlantic jet became imbedded in the horizontal stabiliser of the aircraft after the engine ‘surged’ several times.
The Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) of the Department of Transport has issued its final reported into incident which involved a United Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in 2022.
United flight UA-134 was travelling from Newark in the US to Zurich, Switzerland when the crew declared an emergency at around 9.00am March 28th 2022. The Boeing 767-322(ER) jet was about 583 nautical miles (1080 kilometres) west-northwest of Shannon at the time. There were 116 passengers and a crew of 10 on board.
According to the AAIU report: “During the cruise phase of a scheduled passenger flight between Newark and Zurich, the right engine of the Boeing 767-322ER aircraft surged several times.
Due to abnormal indications on several engine instruments,…