Created Saturday, Sep 18th 2021 10:40Z, last updated Saturday, Sep 18th 2021 10:40Z
An Enter Air Boeing 737-800, registration SP-ENG performing flight E4-1048 (scheduled dep Sep 17th, actual dep Sep 18th) from Mombasa (Kenya) to Hurghada (Egypt) with 167 people on board, was enroute at FL360 about 250nm southwest of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) when one of the engines (CFM56) became unresponsive with EGT reaching the limit, the crew therefore shut the engine down and diverted to Addis Ababa for a safe landing about 40 minutes later.
The airline reported one of the engines showed erroneous indications prompting the crew to divert to Addis Ababa. Due to difficult communications with Addis Ababa they still don't know the exact reason for the diversion. The aircraft had departed Mombasa with delay due to an unrelated incident, when smoke appeared from one of the luggage of one of the passengers. Passengers are currently in the waiting lounge in Addis Ababa, a replacement aircraft has been dispatched.
Passengers reported they had boarded the aircraft in Mombasa already when flight attendants began shouting to immediately leave the aircraft, upon disembarking it appeared there was smoke from one of the luggage holds. About 3 hours later they boarded again after they had been told the issue was resolved. In flight the crew announced that one engine had to be shut down and they were diverting to Addis Ababa.
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