China Eastern Airlines Airbus A320 214 incident
Airbus A320 214 · Incident
From Changchun Longjia International Airport (CGQ) to Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG11WA017
- 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 A320 214
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A320
- 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
- B-2221
- Operator
- China Eastern Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Changchun Longjia International Airport (CGQ), ChangchunTo Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC), Dalian
- 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.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On December 29, 2010, a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A320-214, powered by two CFM56-5B4/P turbofan engines experienced a No. 2 engine (right) engine failure during the initial takeoff roll from Changchum Airport, Changchum, China. During initial take-off run at approximately 10 knot, crew heard a loud sound from right hand side of the aircraft, and aircraft veered to the right. ECAM displayed warning of engine losing rpm. Crew aborted take off, turned off the right hand engine following the ECAM instruction, and returned the aircraft to the gate. Event flight was the 3rd flight of the day. The flight was a regularly scheduled flight from Changchum to Dalian, China.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Chinese. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
General Administration of Civil Aviation of China 155 Dongsi Street West Beijing 100710 China
Tel.: (86) 10 6409-1908 (business hours) (86) 10 6401-2907 (24 hours / 7 days) E-mail: yf_mao@caac.gov.cn Fax: (86) 10 6405-2829 AFTN: ZBBBYAYX Telex: 22101 CAXT CN Cable: 22101 CAXTCN
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of China.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG11WA017
- Event ID
- 20110216X04353
- Case number
- ENG11WA017
- 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: bc6d2e4d965c4e2b5974bf696fb50db1dc3bd5c7bbb15f73e12344c72e982c88; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:49:13.259Z.