Air France plane engine fails over Atlantic

An air france flight from paris to l.  A. Became forced to make a sudden diversion when it misplaced a part of an engine over the atlantic.
One of the four engines at the airbus a380 flight af66 failed west of greenland on saturday.
No-one changed into injured within the incident, but passengers remained on board hours after the landing at 15:forty two gmt.
The aircraft was carrying 496 passengers and 24 team at the time, an air france spokesperson informed afp news organization.
David rehmar, a former plane mechanic who became a passenger at the flight, instructed the bbc that primarily based on his observations, the incident changed into a fan failure.
He said there has been a sudden movement observed with the aid of a noisy noise, which brought on panic many of the passengers.
"you heard a loud 'boom', and it changed into the vibration alone that made me assume the engine had failed," he said.
Mr rehmar stated that for a few moments, he concept "we have been going to go down."
His fear that the plane's wing might have been compromised disappeared while the flight stabilised inside 30 seconds. And he added that the pilots had quick close down the affected engine.
A view over the wing, showing land within the distance beyond, while the plane continues to be airborne. Mangled steel may be seen poking above the surface.Picture copyrightdavid rehmar
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The wing suffered no serious damage and the aircraft landed adequately
The aircraft flew for approximately an hour on 3 engines earlier than it reached goose bay airport, in labrador in japanese canada.
Photographs taken by using passengers showed the cowling, or engine overlaying, completely destroyed, and a few cosmetic harm to the wing's surface.
Mr rehmar said that a hen strike changed into not a possible purpose of the incident at this kind of high altitude, and his experience led him to trust the stage-one fan - the outside fan blades at the the front of the engine - had in some way failed. But the motive of this type of failure isn't always yet clear.
Passengers have been stranded on the plane in canada for a number of hours, as the airport isn't equipped to address an airbus a380.
He stated passengers have been supplied with meals and that the captain had pop out to speak to passengers. A few posed with him in pictures published on social media.
Two 777s had been dispatched from montreal to choose them up and transfer them to los angeles.
In a declaration, air france truely confirmed "extreme damage" to one engine and stated its team had "dealt with this extreme incident flawlessly".