British Airways Airbus A319 131 incident
Airbus A319 131 · Incident
From Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG09WA022
- 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 A319 131
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A319
- 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
- G-EUPL
- Operator
- British Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH), Copenhagen, DenmarkTo not recorded
- 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
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Copenhagen, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On September 17, 2009, a British Airways Airbus A319-131, powered by two International Aero Engines V2522-A5 engines, experienced a bird strike and subsequent engine stall in the No. 1 engine (left-hand) during climb after takeoff at approximately 5,000 feet. An in-flight engine shutdown was performed and the airplane was returned to the Copenhagen Airport (CPH), Denmark for an uneventful single-engine landing. The engine was removed and shipped to the Rolls-Royce East Kilbride engine facility in Scotland for disassembly and examination.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Denmark. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Langebjergvaenget 21 DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark
Tel.: (45) 38 71 10 66 (0800 – 1600 hrs) (45) 32 51 66 11 (1600 – 0800 hrs) E-mail: aaib@hcl.dk Fax: (45) 38 71 92 31 Telex: 16850 AAIB DK Cable: AAIBDENM Website: http://www.hcl.dk
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Denmark.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG09WA022
- Event ID
- 20091019X30130
- Case number
- ENG09WA022
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: c6221dc01902e3f218c7d29a013fb0a7f9c63bb109719a619df5059d24f2f611; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:25:09.509Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure. Typo in city name; narrative and airport code CPH confirm Copenhagen.