Earlier today, a China Airlines Airbus A350 operating CI753 between Taipei and Singapore declared an emergency with a major issue onboard.
Information has been released pertinent to the incident at hand.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
Emergency: China Airlines CI753 Taipei-Singapore…
China Airlines flight CI753, which declared the emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between Taipei and Singapore.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was B-18908.
As per data from Planespotters.net, B-18908 is a 7.8 year old Airbus A350-900 that was delivered to the airline back in July 2017.
Of the A350-900 variant, China Airlines has 15 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, of the 15, all of them are in active service, with an average age of 7.6 years.
China Airlines flight CI753, which declared the emergency, departed Taipei at 0827 local time on April 13th, bound for Singapore.
Whilst the aircraft was cruising at 39,000 feet, a massive descent was commenced.
Following this was the 7700 squawk code, used to declare a general emergency.
From there, Kaohsiung was chosen as the diversion field due to the nature of the issue onboard.
After around five hours and four minutes in the air, China Airlines flight CI753, bound for Singapore from Taipei, made the emergency landing successfully into Kaohsiung.
The Reason?: Engine Failure on the Airbus A350…
As per The Aviation Herald, it is understood the reason for the emergency onboard China Airlines flight CI753 Taipei-Singapore was due to an engine failure.
Furthermore, the aircraft remains on the ground in Kaohsiung following this engine failure.
Data from AirNav Radar suggests that the aircraft will be back in commercial service on April 15.
It is expected to operate the following flights upon it’s return to service:
- CI501/502 – Taipei to Shanghai and back.
- CI503/504 – Taipei to Shanghai and back.
Of course, this is subject to change.
Moreover, if the extent of the engine failure is significant, then it could take some time to fix the engine before the aircraft can return back to commercial service.
If the aircraft doesn’t operate those flights on April 15, then China Airlines will need to reassign aircraft or cancel flights.
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Any Cause for Concern?
The Airbus A350 is a relatively new aircraft program to grace air travel over the last decade or so.
Furthermore, the aircraft type hasn’t been involved in too many accidents or incidents in it’s time.
That being said, however, Airbus boasts strong engine reliability on the A350-900, the aircraft type that was involved in the emergency on China Airlines flight CI753 Taipei-Singapore earlier today.
The Trent XWB from Rolls-Royce, which powers the aircraft, boasts a 98% reliability rate.
This is an impressive statistic, and is testament to the build quality undertaken by Rolls-Royce.
Because of this, it is not suggestable that the A350 engines are going through issues, particularly on the -900 that is widespread.
For now, that particular A350 is stuck in Kaohsiung and will be until the relevant fixes or replacements are made.
As soon as we have more information on this, then we will update you accordingly.
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