Final Report A332 (D-ABXA), NNW of Phuket Thailand, 20 December 2012
Final Report A332 (D-ABXA), NNW of Phuket Thailand, 20 December 2012
On 20 December 2012, a PW4168A-engined Airbus A330-200 was climbing through FL220 after departing Phuket at night when sudden uncontained left engine failure occurred. Engine shutdown and initiation of a return was followed by consequential loss of the green and then blue hydraulic systems. Shortly after this, a relatively uneventful landing followed with only minor damage but “without pilot assessment or knowledge of the safety margin”. As the findings of the Investigation raised still-relevant concerns about the way this multiple failure scenario was handled, it was still felt to be useful to publish the 148-page Final Report eleven years later.
