Shaheen Air Engine Trouble

[Shahab]

Hi everyone. Just got a message from my brother. His Shaheen air flight just landed back at BBI airport after an engine failure. Any further details available anyone?

[Abbas Ali]

Shaheen Air Islamabad to Karachi flight NL-122 performed by Boeing 737-4Q8 registration AP-BJT returned to Islamabad.

The Boeing 737 departed from Islamabad at 10:29 AM and returned to Islamabad some minutes later around 10:44 AM.


Source: flightradar24.com

Abbas

[Hamad]

Shaheen Air flight lands safely after engine catches fire
APP | ABDUL SHAKOOR KHAN — UPDATED 8 minutes ago

ISLAMABAD: A Karachi-bound flight of Shaheen Air made an emergency landing at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad on Tuesday after one of its engines caught fire soon after the take off.

Giving the details of the incident, a spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) told APP that a scheduled flight NL-122 of Shaheen Air took off at 1031 hours (local time) for Karachi from Islamabad Airport.

After take off, the pilot of the Boeing-737 aircraft noticed and reported fire in engine No.1 at 1036 hours (local time).

The pilot requested for priority landing which was given immediately and the aircraft landed at 1043 hours safely.

The plane was switched off at the runway and toed to the parking bay for a check-up.

He said that fire services of CAA were alerted to cope with any untoward incident. 174 passengers on board were disembarked safely.

No injures were reported in the incident.

When contacted, Shaheen Air officials did not divulge details of how the engine caught fire, but said that the plane landed safely.

[Abbas Ali]

NL-122 departed from Islamabad at 3:35 PM.


Source: islamabadairport.com.pk

Abbas

[Shahab]

Many thanks indeed for the updates. Can this possibly be a bird strike at take off? On a side note, well done to both pilots for safely bringing the plane back on the ground.

[Abbas Ali]

More info on 'The Aviation Herald' on following link:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4851b8bc&opt=0

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

On April 23, AP-BJT returned to sky as Shaheen Air flight NL-122 from Islamabad to Karachi but diverted to Peshawar, according to information on Flightradar24.com.

Or was it a ferry flight from Islamabad to Peshawar?


Source: flightradar24.com

The baby Boeing returned to duty again on April 24 as Shaheen Air flight NL-726 from Peshawar and Al-Ain and apparently since then has not experienced any technical problem.

Abbas

[skycaptain787]

A comment posted on avherald.com ''CAAPak has suspended licenses of two engineers who cleared the A/C earlier a day before following the bird hit. Incident was avoidable. Preventive maintenance and trend monitoring is questionable''
Good job. Must take strict actions in order to avoid such cases in future.

[TAILWIND]

Ghar ke bhedi, lanka dhai

[Abbas Ali]

Some more info made available in 'The Aviation Herald' report.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4851b8bc&opt=0

Abbas