Paris – Again to the hangar for some A350s: the European Union requests pressing inspection of a small half – the one A350-1000 mannequin – of the fleet of those Airbus long-haul flagships, following an engine fireplace on a Cathay Pacific plane.
Whereas the Hong Kong airline had talked about a “failure” on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engine throughout a flight to Zurich (Switzerland) on Monday, the EU Aviation Security Company (EASA) emphasised Thursday that it was an “in-flight engine fireplace, shortly after takeoff,” apparently linked to defective “high-pressure gas strains.”
“The fireplace was shortly detected and extinguished, and the plane returned safely to Hong Kong,” based on EASA.
Subsequently issuing an emergency directive to airways, EASA specified that inspections are requested solely on the A350-1000 fleet, plane outfitted with XWB-97 engines. In whole, 86 A350-1000s are at present in service worldwide. (September 5, 2024)
