National Transportation Safety Board

摘要

On October 5, 2003, an Edelweiss Air Airbus Industrie A330-200 airplane, Swiss registration HB-IQZ, operating as flight EDW 565, experienced an uncontained turbine blade release from the No. 1 (left) Rolls-Royce Trent 772-60/16 turbofan engine while climbing through flight level 230 (approximately 23,000 feet) after departing from Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida. The flight crewmembers reported that the No. 1 engine fire warning activated and that they discharged both fire bottles before the fire warning extinguished. The flight crew declared an emergency and returned to Miami, where the pilots successfully landed the airplane. No injuries to the 12 crewmembers or 171 passengers were reported. The flight was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 129 and was en route to Zurich, Switzerland, on an extended twin-engine operation (ETOPS) route at the time of the event.