Alitalia Flight AZ615
Airbus A330 202 · Incident
From Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10WA034
- 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 A330 202
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A330
- 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
- EI-DIP
- Operator
- Alitalia
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Boston, MATo Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO), Rome
- 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 · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On June 15, 2010, an Alitalia Airbus A330-202, registration number EI-DIP, flight number AZ615 experienced a reported No. 1 engine (left engine)fire during takeoff from the Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). The No. 1 engine power setting was brought back to idle and an air turn back to BOS was performed where an uneventful landing was accomplished. No reported injuries were reported to any of the passengers or crew members. The No. 1 engine, a General Electric CF6-80E1A4 turbofan, was shutdown during the landing roll. The flight was a regularly scheduled 14 CFR Part 129 flight from Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Logan International Airport (BOS)to Rome, Italy - Leonardo da Vinci International Airport(Fiumicino)(FCO).
According to witnesses, fire and smoke wereobserved coming from the No. 1 engine tailpipe during takeoff. The pilot reported that during the event, an Engine Condition and Monitoring (ECAM) exhaust gas temperature (EGT) increase message was observed as well as N1 (fan and low pressure rotor speed) overspeed. Examination of the No. 1 engine revealed no under cowl fire damage, but oil and metal particles were found in the engine’s tailpipe. The oil magnetic chip collector was removed and was found to be covered with metal shavings. The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) have both been requested to be sent to the NTSB Headquarters for download and readout.
Examination of the data from the FDR and the airplane's quick access recorder (QAR) revealed no indications of a No. 1 engine overspeed or over temperature event. This investigation has been delegated to the Italian authorities.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of 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
Tel.: 39 068 207 8219 / 39 068 207 8200 Fax: 39 068 273 672
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Italy.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG10WA034
- Event ID
- 20100617X91837
- Case number
- ENG10WA034
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates, 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: 65b2631202a3e76d72eeecf610baa7a741aadb924c247be72e2072853b7fbbc5; retrieved 2026-09-15T14:27:39.382Z.