In the last few moments, an American Airlines flight, operated by Envoy Air, bound for Key West declared an emergency moments after takeoff from Washington DCA.
Information is limited regarding this emergency.
Below is what we know so far…
American Airlines Flight AA4168 – Washington-Key West…
American Airlines flight AA4168, the Envoy Air operated flight which declared an emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between Washington DCA and Key West.
The aircraft involved in this incident is N205NN.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N205NN is a 9.0 year old Embraer ERJ-175LR that started out life with Compass Airlines in June 2015.
Furthermore, this is where the relationship with American Airlines began through the Eagle subsidiary.
In June 2020, Envoy Air took over the contract for Eagle, where the aircraft has been since.
Furthermore, of the E175 variant, Envoy Air has 114 of them in the fleet, of which all but two are in active service.
Also, average fleet age for the variant at the airline stands at 6.5 years.
American Airlines flight AA4168 departed Washington DCA at 1253 local time today and initially climbed out to Key West.
Minutes after departure, the aircraft declared an emergency and proceeded to track east in order to get sequenced.
At the time of publication, the aircraft is still in the air following this declaration.
Reason Unclear…
At this stage, it is unclear what the cause of the emergency is onboard American Airlines flight AA4168 between Washington DCA & Key West.
Information is still limited regarding this incident.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this, then we will update you accordingly in due course.
For now, this remains a developing story.
Diverting to Baltimore…
Data from @RadarBoxCom shows that AA4168 is diverting to Baltimore and will make an emergency landing there.
Hit Something on Takeoff…
It is understood that the aircraft “hit something on takeoff”, according to ATC.
TOUCHDOWN!
TOUCHDOWN! American Airlines flight AA4168 bound for Key West from Washington DCA has appeared to have touched down safely into Baltimore following it’s emergency declaration.
Furthermore, as soon as we have more information, we will update you accordingly.
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