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Air New Zealand Emergency Landing After Shooting Flames Seen

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First Posted: 06/09/11 09:43 AM ET Updated: 08/09/11 06:12 AM ET

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An Air New Zealand flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Auckland on Thursday after flames were seen shooting out of one of the plane's engines, Stuff reports.

The plane, a Boeing 767, took off on Thursday afternoon with 206 passengers and 10 crew members on board en route to Perth, Australia.

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An Air New Zealand flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Auckland on Thursday after flames were seen shooting out of one of the plane's engines, Stuff reports. The plane, a Boeing 767, ...
An Air New Zealand flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Auckland on Thursday after flames were seen shooting out of one of the plane's engines, Stuff reports. The plane, a Boeing 767, ...
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Air Vice Marshal Park
939 Fans
11:28 AM on 06/09/2011
Much better and more descriptive article on the BBC site. It fits the classic description of a compressor stall, a spectacular but not particularly dangerous event that happens very infrequently. There was no visible damage to the engine as would happen with a bird strike. The engine shutdown and return to the airport was precautionary.

A compressor stall can have a number of direct causes but the basic problem is that airflow over the compressor blades suffers an aerodynamic stall, with airflow separating from the blades much as a wing stalls at too high an angle of attack. There are, typically, one or two loud bangs followed by a brief jet of flame out the back of the engine. That is exactly what is described, here.
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Plaines d' Abraham
409 Fans
10:39 AM on 06/09/2011
They were just going to have a BBQ on the wing... ;-)
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Beating the Conundrum
1821 Fans
10:31 AM on 06/09/2011
Considering the temperatures inside a turbofan engine, the prospects of some flames coming out of one of those engines if the fuel gets metered wrong is no surprise. If the flames had been on the wings that would have been terrifying.

This is just today's "Look how dangerous and screwed up airlines are; you should be afraid to fly article in HP, nothing more.
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