Emirates Airbus A380-861 B1 incident
Airbus A380-861 B1 · Incident
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG13WA007
- 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
- 0
- 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 A380-861 B1
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A380
- 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
- A6-EDA
- Operator
- Emirates
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 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
- Part 129: Foreign
- 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 November 11, 2012, an Airbus A380-861, Reg. No. A6-EDA, performed an air turnback following an engine shutdown during climb after takeoff from Sydney NSW airport (SYD). The crew reported abnormal No. 3 engine indications and subsequent automatic engine shutdown. The crew dumped fuel and returned to SYD. The flight was en route to Dubai UAE. There was no airplane damage and no injuries were reported.
The engine is an Engine Alliance GP7270 serial number 550121 with 15,146 TSN and 1,857 CSN. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a borescope inspection has revealed a 2nd stage high pressure turbine (HPT) nozzle failure and small holes and tears to the HPT case; no debris penetrated the nacelle.
This incident is being investigated by the Australian Transportation Safety Board. For further information about the incident, contact:
Ms. Peta Blake, Investigator In Charge, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) P.O. Box 967, Civic Square Canberra A.C.T. 2608 Australia
Tel: (61) 2 6257-4150 (24/7 Notifications) (61) 2 6274-6464 (International liaison) E-mail: atsbasir@atsb.gov.au (Notifications) atsbinfo@atsb.gov.au (International liaison) Fax: (61) 2 6274-6434 (Notifications) (61) 2 6274-6474 (International liaison) Website: http://www.atsb.gov.au
This report is for informational purposes and contains only information obtained for or released by the Government of Australia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG13WA007
- Event ID
- 20121113X03553
- Case number
- ENG13WA007
- 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: 1f10ab989fbea0b83c38cf3ec93d510834ac7562af4e3b471f429d77459b6494; retrieved 2026-09-15T20:24:30.242Z.