Club Air British Aerospace BAE-146-200 incident
British Aerospace BAE-146-200 · Incident
From Florence to Tirana
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Event
- NTSB case
- ENG05RA011
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
British Aerospace BAE-146-200
- Aircraft type
- British Aerospace BAE-146
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Club Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From FlorenceTo Tirana
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On May 1, 2005, a Club Air British Aerospace BAE-146-200 airplane, registered in Italy as I-FLRI, experienced an uncontained release of turbine material from the No. 2 engine, a Honeywell ALF502R-5 turbofan, as the airplane was climbing through 15,000 feet near Verona, Italy. The airplane was enroute from Florence, Italy to Tirana, Albania. The pilots stated that as there were climbing through 15,000 feet, they heard a noise and felt a vibration from the engine. The pilots further reported that the performed the engine fire/severed damage checklist procedures and diverted to Verona for an uneventful three-engine landing.
The investigation of this incident is under the jurisdiction of the Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo (ANSV). This report is for information purposes only and contains information that was released by or obtained from the Government of Italy. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo Via A. Benigni, 53-00156 Rome, Italy
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG05RA011
- Event ID
- 20080506X00614
- Case number
- ENG05RA011
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 46e6ef79589be78abda6635fd8a27e45a58ac8c6b6d4af2cb8959c64f2a19a6e; retrieved 2026-09-18T15:02:56.047Z.