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Serious Incident to the Airbus A320 registered VT-WGB and operated by Go Airlines on 08/02/2017 at Delhi [Investigation led by AAIB / India]

Arrêt automatique du moteur 1 après le décollage, atterrissage en surcharge sur l'aérodrome de départ

Responsible entity

India - AIB

Preliminary data based on the notification from the Indian authorities :

The aircraft returned back to Delhi immediately after liftoff due Eng#1 low pressure followed by Eng#1 autoshutdown. PAN PAN call was given to Delhi ATC. Aircraft had to carry out a heavy landing and landed safely on runway 28 at Delhi. As per the preliminary information there was fire in the engine due to rubbing and excessive friction of the rotating parts (bearing).