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| Date: | Thursday 15 February 2001 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Airbus A330-322 |
| Owner/operator: | Skyservice Airlines |
| Registration: | C-FBUS |
| MSN: | 095 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1995 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney PW4168 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 366 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | 30nm West of Kozhikode -
 India
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Medan-Polonia Airport (MES/WIMM) |
| Jeddah-Prince Abdullah Air Base (JED/OEJN) | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On 15 February 2001, C-FBUS, Skyservice Flight 6315, an Airbus A330, departed from Medan, Indonesia, at 1055 Coordinated Universal Time (1655 local time) on an approved extended range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) charter flight to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. On board were 355 passengers and 11 crew members. About 3 hours 8 minutes after departure, while the aircraft was climbing from flight level (FL) 350 to FL390, a loud bang was heard and the No. 2 engine (Pratt & Whitney PW4168, serial number P733335) failed. The engine was shut down as per the electronic centralized aircraft monitoring (ECAM) checklist: the fire button was pushed and one fire bottle was discharged. The aircraft was approximately 30 nautical miles west of Calicut, India, at latitude 11° N, longitude 76° E. The captain initiated a descent to FL230 and began a diversion to Colombo, Sri Lanka. He then briefed the cabin service manager, who in turn briefed the flight attendants and the passengers. The aircraft was vectored for a single-engine instrument landing system (ILS) approach to Runway 22. Ninety minutes after the engine failure, the flight crew conducted an uneventful single-engine overweight landing with emergency response services standing by.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://tsb.gc.ca/sites/default/files/rapports-reports/aviation/a01f0020/eng/a01f0020.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 21 November 2000 | C-FBUS | Skyservice Airlines | 0 | Manchester International Airport (MAN/EGCC) |  |
non |
| 28 July 2011 | OO-SFV | Brussels Airlines | 0 | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA) |  |
min |
| Collision with Ground support equipment | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Oct-2024 06:36 | Prometheus | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
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