A passenger jet has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport after suffering an engine problem over the Atlantic this morning.
The flight was forced to turn around and divert to Shannon, landing with just one of its two engines operating. It’s understood that the engine suffered a ‘compressor stall’ and that the crew shut the engine down as a precaution.
Jetblue flight JBU-2220 was travelling from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York/JFK at the time. The Airbus A321-271(Neo) jet was over the North Atlantic about two hours west of Ireland when the crew declared an emergency.
The brand new aircraft only entered service last month according to records.
The crew made contact with aircraft controllers in Shannon to advise them of their emergency. The crew confirmed they had shut down the aircrafts No.2 engine and that they would require airport emergency services to be standing by for their arrival.
Shannon Airport’s own fire and rescue service was alerted while the local authority fire service, National Ambulance Service (NAS) and Gardaí were also requested to deployed resources to the airport.
Units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon and Ennis stations were dispatched to the airport along several ambulances and other NAS response vehicles. Local Gardaí also attended at the airport.
The aircraft landed safety at 10.50am and was pursued along the runway by fire crews who accompanied the jet to the terminal where they remained for a time before being stood down.
Engineers are expected to inspect the engine however it’s believed that a replacement aircraft will be sent to Shannon this afternoon to take the passengers onto their final destination.
