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🚨Atlas Air 747-8F to San Juan safely returns to Miami

 Atlas Air 747-8F to San Juan safely returns to Miami following an engine issue on departure. The aircraft landed 14 minutes after declaring the emergency

MIAMI – An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F cargo plane with five crew members made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport (MIA)late on Jan 18 after facing an engine malfunction shortly after departure.

Unverified videos on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, showed flames shooting out of the left wing of the aircraft while in flight. No injuries were reported, the airport told Reuters.

“The crew followed all standard procedures and safely returned to MIA,” the air-freight company said, adding that it would conduct an inspection to find the cause.




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The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it will investigate the incident, while Boeing deferred comment to Atlas Air.

According to data from flight tracking website Flightradar24, the aircraft is eight years old. The 747-8F model is powered by four General Electric GEnx engines, according to Boeing’s website.

The engine is also used on certain variants of Boeing’s 787 twin-engine wide-body passenger jet.

GE was not immediately available for a comment.

Engine failures are rare, but are potentially dangerous when rotating parts pierce the outer casing – an event known as an uncontained engine failure.

The engine malfunction comes against the backdrop of two high-profile jetliner accidents in 2024.

An Airbus A350 passenger plane operated by Japan Airlines collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft in Tokyo, killing five crew members on Jan 2.

On Jan 5, a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet made an emergency landing following a cabin panel blowout, which prompted the FAA to temporarily ground 171 Boeing jets for safety checks.

Snag occurred on the climb 

Atlas Air Flight 5Y095 was on its way to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Miami International Airport late on Jan 18.

The pilot made a mayday call at 10.33pm local time on Jan 18 (11.33am Singapore time on Jan 19) to report an engine fire and requested to return to the airport, according to multi-channel recordings of conversations between the air traffic control and the plane available on liveatc.net.

“We have an engine fire,” one of the plane’s crew members said, disclosing that there were five people on board.

The crew member said the incident involved engine number two, the innermost engine on the left wing, and occurred “on the climb out” of the airport just after take-off.

Atlas Air, whose customers include parcel delivery giants DHL and FedEx, went private in 2023 when it was bought by a group led by private equity Apollo Global Management.

Once known as the “Queen of the Skies”, the Boeing 747 revolutionised air travel and was the world’s first twin-aisle wide-body jet.

But technological advances made it possible for dual-engine jets to replicate their range and capacity at lower cost and Boeing decided in July 2020 to end 747 production. REUTERS

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