ENG16WA043 · Airbus A320 232
Airbus A320 232 · Incident: loss of engine power (total) en route
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG16WA043
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 232
- 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
- VH-VFY
- Operator
- Unknown
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Loss of engine power (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Brisbane, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
An Australian-registered A320-232 airplane in cruise flight between Sydney and Cairns, Australia had a failure of the right engine, an International Aero Engine V2527-A5. The airplane diverted to Brisbane for landing.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating this incident. All inquiries concerning this incident should be directed to the ATSB at:
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
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG16WA043
- Event ID
- 20170113X34413
- Case number
- ENG16WA043
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 8eae37f12a440b64c0f5a88c22cfa5f606152e2a8d1e1aba26c02b9567132a7c; retrieved 2026-09-16T04:56:58.428Z.