A333, vicinity Gold Coast Queensland Australia, 2017

A333, vicinity Gold Coast Queensland Australia, 2017

Summary

On 3 July 2017, an Airbus A330-300 was climbing through 2,300 feet after a night takeoff from Gold Coast when the number 2 engine began to malfunction. As a cabin report of fire in the same engine was received, it failed and a diversion to Brisbane was made. The Investigation found that the engine failure was entirely attributable to the ingestion of a single medium-sized bird well within engine certification requirements. It was concluded that the failure was the result of a sufficiently rare combination of circumstances that it would be extremely unlikely for multiple engines to be affected simultaneously.

Description

On 3 July 2017, an Airbus A330-300 (9M-XXT) being operated by Air Asia X on a scheduled international passenger flight from Gold Coast to Kuala Lumpur as D7207 had just taken off at night when malfunction of the number 2 Rolls Royce Trent 772B-60 engine was indicated. A PAN was declared as part of the crew response and soon afterwards, at about the same time as a report was received from an off duty Company pilot travelling in the passenger cabin of fire seen in the affected engine, its failure was indicated in the flight deck. As per applicable procedures, it was shut down with fire suppression activated, a MAYDAY was declared and a diversion to Brisbane was completed without further event.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).

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