Airblue Flight 410
Airbus A321-231 · Incident: loss of engine power (partial) during initial climb
From Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE) to Dubai International Airport (DXB)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG08WA048
- 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
Airbus A321-231
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A321
- 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
- AP-BRJ
- Operator
- AirBlue
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE), LahoreTo Dubai International Airport (DXB), Dubai
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Loss of engine power (partial)
- 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.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Lahore, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On 30 March 2008, airblue flight 410, an Airbus A321 operating a route from Lahore, Pakistan to Dubai, U.A.E. experienced an in-flight shutdown on No. 1 position engine (ESN: V10538) shortly after take-off from Allama Iqbal International Airport. The in-flight shut down occurred at about 1,200 feet altitude. The aircraft safely returned back to Lahore with no injuries report. The engine was removed and sent to the MTU facility in Zhuhai, China for further examination.
The accident is being investigated by the Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Headquarters, Civil Aviation Authority Terminal-1, JIAP Karachi-75200 Pakistan
Tel.: (92) 21 924 8720 E-mail: dgcaa@caapakistan.com.pk Fax: (92) 21 924 8722 Telex: 29534 DGCAA PK SITA: KHIAPXX to DG HQCAA AFTN: OPHQYAYX
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Pakistan
Probable cause
The accident is being investigated by the Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Headquarters, Civil Aviation Authority Terminal-1, JIAP Karachi-75200 Pakistan
Tel.: (92) 21 924 8720 E-mail: dgcaa@caapakistan.com.pk Fax: (92) 21 924 8722 Telex: 29534 DGCAA PK SITA: KHIAPXX to DG HQCAA AFTN: OPHQYAYX
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Pakistan
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG08WA048
- Event ID
- 20090408X80351
- Case number
- ENG08WA048
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: 51751be284bc56312b5623cbddb21b786efdc943b222ae613932252775c85d73; retrieved 2026-09-15T10:55:08.473Z.