Angola Airlines Boeing 777 2M2ER incident
Boeing 777 2M2ER · Incident
From Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LPPT) to Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (FNLU)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG11WA006
- 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
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
Boeing 777 2M2ER
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- 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
- D2-TEF
- Operator
- Angola Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LPPT), LisbonTo Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (FNLU), Luanda
- 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 Lisbon, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On December 6, 2010, at 11:15 local time, an Angola Airlines (TAAG)Boeing 777-2M2ER, powered by two General Electric GE90-94B Turbofan engines experienced a No. 2 (right) engine low pressure turbine failure after takeoff from the Lisbon International Airport (LPPT), Portugal. Turbine blades were reported to have been expelled out the back of the engine over a populated area. The flight crew performed an air turn back and the airplane made a successful landing with no reported injuries. The airplane was on a flight from Lisbon to Luanda International Airport (FNLU), Angola.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Portugal. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Gabinete de Prevençao e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves (GPIAA) Praça Duque de Saldanha, n.˚ 31, 4˚ 1050-094 Lisboa Portugal
Tel.: (351) 21 273-9230 (general) (351) 21273-9245 (director) E-mail: geral@gpiaa.gov.pt Fax: (351) 21 273-9260 AFTN: LPPTYLYX Website: www.gpiaa.gov.pt
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Portugal.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG11WA006
- Event ID
- 20101208X01208
- Case number
- ENG11WA006
- 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: 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: b37605b4230dcf6bf712a4e7c23ce7adeb2198f0ab415352b859c1732e18358c; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:36:36.404Z.