Created Friday, Jan 10th 2025 12:08Z, last updated Saturday, Jan 11th 2025 13:21Z
An Allegiant Air Airbus A319-100, registration N312NV performing flight
G4-65 from Las Vegas,NV to Rapid City,SD (USA), was climbing out of Las Vegas' runway 01R when the crew stopped the climb at about FL200 due to the failure of the left hand engine (CFM56), the crew shut the engine down and returned the aircraft to Las Vegas for a safe landing on runway 26L about 35 minutes after departure. The aircraft vacated the runway, was inspected by emergency services stating that the left hand engine appeared normal from their point of view, and taxied to the apron.
A replacement A320-200 registration N220NV reached Rapid City the following day with a delay of about 13 hours.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Las Vegas for about 3 days 16 hours before returning to service.
On Jan 11th 2025 the airline reported it was a precautionary engine shut down.
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